From 23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:45:42 -0700 Subject: fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid The kernel has no concept of capabilities with respect to inodes; inodes exist independently of namespaces. For example, inode_capable(inode, CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) would be nonsense. This patch changes inode_capable to check for uid and gid mappings and renames it to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid, which should make it more obvious what it does. Fixes CVE-2014-4014. Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/capability.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h index a6ee1f9a501..84b13ad67c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/capability.h +++ b/include/linux/capability.h @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ extern bool has_ns_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); extern bool capable(int cap); extern bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); -extern bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap); +extern bool capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(const struct inode *inode, int cap); extern bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap); /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */ -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2