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author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2008-05-28 07:05:17 +0200 |
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committer | Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> | 2008-06-01 01:36:16 +0200 |
commit | ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f (patch) | |
tree | b39fba6604da4b4f77103d2769bb783118b9b508 /include | |
parent | LSM: remove stale web site from MAINTAINERS (diff) | |
download | linux-ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f.tar.xz linux-ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f.zip |
capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support.
Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the
_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the
raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but
true.
Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is
software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics
of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer
corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than
they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using
sys_capset().
As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation
for all. It
1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its
legacy value.
2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal
implementation of the preferred magic.
3. deprecates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic
number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2,
the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel
to log a "deprecated" warning so the admin can find applications
that may be using v2 inappropriately.
[User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which
protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first
to support v3 capabilities.]
Fixes issue reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447518.
Thanks to Bojan Smojver for the report.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depreciate/deprecate/g]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: be robust about put_user size]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/capability.h | 29 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h index f4ea0dd9a618..fa830f8de032 100644 --- a/include/linux/capability.h +++ b/include/linux/capability.h @@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ struct task_struct; #define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1 0x19980330 #define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1 1 -#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 0x20071026 +#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 0x20071026 /* deprecated - use v3 */ #define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2 2 -#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 -#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2 +#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3 0x20080522 +#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3 2 typedef struct __user_cap_header_struct { __u32 version; @@ -77,10 +77,23 @@ struct vfs_cap_data { } data[VFS_CAP_U32]; }; -#ifdef __KERNEL__ +#ifndef __KERNEL__ + +/* + * Backwardly compatible definition for source code - trapped in a + * 32-bit world. If you find you need this, please consider using + * libcap to untrap yourself... + */ +#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1 +#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1 + +#else + +#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3 +#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3 typedef struct kernel_cap_struct { - __u32 cap[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S]; + __u32 cap[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S]; } kernel_cap_t; #define _USER_CAP_HEADER_SIZE (sizeof(struct __user_cap_header_struct)) @@ -351,7 +364,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct { */ #define CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) \ - for (__capi = 0; __capi < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S; ++__capi) + for (__capi = 0; __capi < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S; ++__capi) # define CAP_FS_MASK_B0 (CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_CHOWN) \ | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) \ @@ -361,7 +374,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct { # define CAP_FS_MASK_B1 (CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE)) -#if _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 +#if _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 # error Fix up hand-coded capability macro initializers #else /* HAND-CODED capability initializers */ @@ -372,7 +385,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct { # define CAP_NFSD_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0|CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE), \ CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } }) -#endif /* _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 */ +#endif /* _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 */ #define CAP_INIT_INH_SET CAP_EMPTY_SET |