netdev - Re: bpf stable request

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Message-ID: <56558d05-ca09-ca33-a19d-6630c5dceb6a@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 02:00:49 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Chenbo Feng <chenbofeng.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: bpf stable request

On 03/27/2018 01:52 AM, Chenbo Feng wrote:
> 0fa4fe85f4724fff89b09741c437cbee9cf8b008 bpf: skip unnecessary capability check
> 
> This patch fixes the false alarms from security system such as selinux when doing the capability check. The problem exists since the sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled is added in linux 4.4. So I suggest to backport this patch to all LTS stable branches starting from linux-4.4-y.

I will include this into the next batch, thanks guys!