Merge tag 'v3.16-rc1' into x86/cpufeature

Linux 3.16-rc1

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index a8d63df0c32..a5cf13c018c 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
  */
 
 const kernel_cap_t __cap_empty_set = CAP_EMPTY_SET;
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cap_empty_set);
 
 int file_caps_enabled = 1;
@@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_t, header, cap_user_data_t, dataptr)
 		 *
 		 * An alternative would be to return an error here
 		 * (-ERANGE), but that causes legacy applications to
-		 * unexpectidly fail; the capget/modify/capset aborts
+		 * unexpectedly fail; the capget/modify/capset aborts
 		 * before modification is attempted and the application
 		 * fails.
 		 */
@@ -395,7 +394,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_capable);
  * This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV because the caller may not
  * actually be privileged.
  */
-bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap)
+bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns,
+		     int cap)
 {
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!cap_valid(cap)))
 		return false;
@@ -424,23 +424,19 @@ bool capable(int cap)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable);
 
 /**
- * inode_capable - Check superior capability over inode
+ * capable_wrt_inode_uidgid - Check nsown_capable and uid and gid mapped
  * @inode: The inode in question
  * @cap: The capability in question
  *
- * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability
- * targeted at it's own user namespace and that the given inode is owned
- * by the current user namespace or a child namespace.
- *
- * Currently we check to see if an inode is owned by the current
- * user namespace by seeing if the inode's owner maps into the
- * current user namespace.
- *
+ * Return true if the current task has the given capability targeted at
+ * its own user namespace and that the given inode's uid and gid are
+ * mapped into the current user namespace.
  */
-bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
+bool capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
 {
 	struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns();
 
-	return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid);
+	return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid) &&
+		kgid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_gid);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_capable);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable_wrt_inode_uidgid);