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| author | Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> | 2016-06-03 06:43:22 +0200 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2016-06-06 12:16:22 +0200 |
| commit | d6e0d306449bcb5fa3c80e7a3edf11d45abf9ae9 (patch) | |
| tree | c340f613680154bf751e707de302ae7b2a52d30b /net/sysctl_net.c | |
| parent | kernel: Add noaudit variant of ns_capable() (diff) | |
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net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.
The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.
BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sysctl_net.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sysctl_net.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sysctl_net.c b/net/sysctl_net.c index ed98c1fc3de1..46a71c701e7c 100644 --- a/net/sysctl_net.c +++ b/net/sysctl_net.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head, kgid_t root_gid = make_kgid(net->user_ns, 0); /* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */ - if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) || + if (ns_capable_noaudit(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) || uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) { int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7; return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode; |