remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES compile option
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 <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 45b87af..f800fdb 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@
*/
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
@@ -181,7 +180,6 @@
if (cap_capable(current, current_cred(), CAP_SETPCAP,
SECURITY_CAP_AUDIT) == 0)
return 0;
-#endif
return 1;
}
@@ -239,8 +237,6 @@
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
@@ -421,49 +417,6 @@
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
@@ -523,9 +476,8 @@
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;
@@ -739,7 +691,6 @@
return 0;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
/*
* Rationale: code calling task_setscheduler, task_setioprio, and
* task_setnice, assumes that
@@ -820,22 +771,6 @@
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
@@ -866,7 +801,6 @@
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)
@@ -917,8 +851,6 @@
error = new->securebits;
goto no_change;
-#endif /* def CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */
-
case PR_GET_KEEPCAPS:
if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS))
error = 1;