kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities

There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root.  For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.

This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional.  It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.

When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.

The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.

Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.

In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.

This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build.  The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB.  (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.

The kernel was booted in Qemu.  All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.

Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c
index 5adcb0ae3a58..7995ef5868d8 100644
--- a/kernel/sys_ni.c
+++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c
@@ -159,6 +159,20 @@ cond_syscall(sys_uselib);
 cond_syscall(sys_fadvise64);
 cond_syscall(sys_fadvise64_64);
 cond_syscall(sys_madvise);
+cond_syscall(sys_setuid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setregid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setgid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setreuid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setresuid);
+cond_syscall(sys_getresuid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setresgid);
+cond_syscall(sys_getresgid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setgroups);
+cond_syscall(sys_getgroups);
+cond_syscall(sys_setfsuid);
+cond_syscall(sys_setfsgid);
+cond_syscall(sys_capget);
+cond_syscall(sys_capset);
 
 /* arch-specific weak syscall entries */
 cond_syscall(sys_pciconfig_read);