From aedb60a67c10a0861af179725d060765262ba0fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Serge Hallyn Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:14:57 +0000 Subject: file capabilities: remove cap_task_kill() The original justification for cap_task_kill() was as follows: check_kill_permission() does appropriate uid equivalence checks. However with file capabilities it becomes possible for an unprivileged user to execute a file with file capabilities resulting in a more privileged task with the same uid. However now that cap_task_kill() always returns 0 (permission granted) when p->uid==current->uid, the whole hook is worthless, and only likely to create more subtle problems in the corner cases where it might still be called but return -EPERM. Those cases are basically when uids are different but euid/suid is equivalent as per the check in check_kill_permission(). One example of a still-broken application is 'at' for non-root users. This patch removes cap_task_kill(). Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan Earlier-version-tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/security.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index b07357ca2137..c673dfd4dffc 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ extern int cap_inode_need_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry); extern int cap_inode_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry); extern int cap_task_post_setuid (uid_t old_ruid, uid_t old_euid, uid_t old_suid, int flags); extern void cap_task_reparent_to_init (struct task_struct *p); -extern int cap_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info, int sig, u32 secid); extern int cap_task_setscheduler (struct task_struct *p, int policy, struct sched_param *lp); extern int cap_task_setioprio (struct task_struct *p, int ioprio); extern int cap_task_setnice (struct task_struct *p, int nice); @@ -2187,7 +2186,7 @@ static inline int security_task_kill (struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info, int sig, u32 secid) { - return cap_task_kill(p, info, sig, secid); + return 0; } static inline int security_task_wait (struct task_struct *p) -- cgit v1.2.2