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remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES compile option
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As far as I know, all distros currently ship kernels with default
CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y.  Since having the option on
leaves a 'no_file_caps' option to boot without file capabilities,
the main reason to keep the option is that turning it off saves
you (on my s390x partition) 5k.  In particular, vmlinux sizes
came to:

without patch fscaps=n:		 	53598392
without patch fscaps=y:		 	53603406
with this patch applied:		53603342

with the security-next tree.

Against this we must weigh the fact that there is no simple way for
userspace to figure out whether file capabilities are supported,
while things like per-process securebits, capability bounding
sets, and adding bits to pI if CAP_SETPCAP is in pE are not supported
with SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=n, leaving a bit of a problem for
applications wanting to know whether they can use them and/or why
something failed.

It also adds another subtly different set of semantics which we must
maintain at the risk of severe security regressions.

So this patch removes the SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES compile
option.  It drops the kernel size by about 50k over the stock
SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y kernel, by removing the
cap_limit_ptraced_target() function.

Changelog:
	Nov 20: remove cap_limit_ptraced_target() as it's logic
		was ifndef'ed.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]>
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Serge E. Hallyn authored and James Morris committed Nov 24, 2009
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions include/linux/capability.h
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Expand Up @@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ struct vfs_cap_data {
#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3
#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
extern int file_caps_enabled;
#endif

typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
__u32 cap[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
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4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions include/linux/init_task.h
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Expand Up @@ -83,16 +83,12 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
#define INIT_IDS
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
/*
* Because of the reduced scope of CAP_SETPCAP when filesystem
* capabilities are in effect, it is safe to allow CAP_SETPCAP to
* be available in the default configuration.
*/
# define CAP_INIT_BSET CAP_FULL_SET
#else
# define CAP_INIT_BSET CAP_INIT_EFF_SET
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
#define INIT_TASK_RCU_PREEMPT(tsk) \
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions kernel/capability.c
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Expand Up @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cap_empty_set);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cap_full_set);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cap_init_eff_set);

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
int file_caps_enabled = 1;

static int __init file_caps_disable(char *str)
Expand All @@ -38,7 +37,6 @@ static int __init file_caps_disable(char *str)
return 1;
}
__setup("no_file_caps", file_caps_disable);
#endif

/*
* More recent versions of libcap are available from:
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9 changes: 0 additions & 9 deletions security/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -91,15 +91,6 @@ config SECURITY_PATH
implement pathname based access controls.
If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.

config SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
bool "File POSIX Capabilities"
default n
help
This enables filesystem capabilities, allowing you to give
binaries a subset of root's powers without using setuid 0.

If in doubt, answer N.

config INTEL_TXT
bool "Enable Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT)"
depends on HAVE_INTEL_TXT
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72 changes: 2 additions & 70 deletions security/commoncap.c
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Expand Up @@ -173,15 +173,13 @@ int cap_capget(struct task_struct *target, kernel_cap_t *effective,
*/
static inline int cap_inh_is_capped(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES

/* they are so limited unless the current task has the CAP_SETPCAP
* capability
*/
if (cap_capable(current, current_cred(), CAP_SETPCAP,
SECURITY_CAP_AUDIT) == 0)
return 0;
#endif
return 1;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -239,8 +237,6 @@ static inline void bprm_clear_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
bprm->cap_effective = false;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES

/**
* cap_inode_need_killpriv - Determine if inode change affects privileges
* @dentry: The inode/dentry in being changed with change marked ATTR_KILL_PRIV
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -421,49 +417,6 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool *effective)
return rc;
}

#else
int cap_inode_need_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return 0;
}

int cap_inode_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return 0;
}

int get_vfs_caps_from_disk(const struct dentry *dentry, struct cpu_vfs_cap_data *cpu_caps)
{
memset(cpu_caps, 0, sizeof(struct cpu_vfs_cap_data));
return -ENODATA;
}

static inline int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool *effective)
{
bprm_clear_caps(bprm);
return 0;
}
#endif

/*
* Determine whether a exec'ing process's new permitted capabilities should be
* limited to just what it already has.
*
* This prevents processes that are being ptraced from gaining access to
* CAP_SETPCAP, unless the process they're tracing already has it, and the
* binary they're executing has filecaps that elevate it.
*
* Returns 1 if they should be limited, 0 if they are not.
*/
static inline int cap_limit_ptraced_target(void)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
if (capable(CAP_SETPCAP))
return 0;
#endif
return 1;
}

/**
* cap_bprm_set_creds - Set up the proposed credentials for execve().
* @bprm: The execution parameters, including the proposed creds
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new->euid = new->uid;
new->egid = new->gid;
}
if (cap_limit_ptraced_target())
new->cap_permitted = cap_intersect(new->cap_permitted,
old->cap_permitted);
new->cap_permitted = cap_intersect(new->cap_permitted,
old->cap_permitted);
}

new->suid = new->fsuid = new->euid;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -739,7 +691,6 @@ int cap_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags)
return 0;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
/*
* Rationale: code calling task_setscheduler, task_setioprio, and
* task_setnice, assumes that
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -820,22 +771,6 @@ static long cap_prctl_drop(struct cred *new, unsigned long cap)
return 0;
}

#else
int cap_task_setscheduler (struct task_struct *p, int policy,
struct sched_param *lp)
{
return 0;
}
int cap_task_setioprio (struct task_struct *p, int ioprio)
{
return 0;
}
int cap_task_setnice (struct task_struct *p, int nice)
{
return 0;
}
#endif

/**
* cap_task_prctl - Implement process control functions for this security module
* @option: The process control function requested
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -866,7 +801,6 @@ int cap_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
error = !!cap_raised(new->cap_bset, arg2);
goto no_change;

#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
case PR_CAPBSET_DROP:
error = cap_prctl_drop(new, arg2);
if (error < 0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -917,8 +851,6 @@ int cap_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
error = new->securebits;
goto no_change;

#endif /* def CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */

case PR_GET_KEEPCAPS:
if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS))
error = 1;
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