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 --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'security/smack') diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 38d707593b31..732ba27923c4 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -1117,11 +1117,6 @@ static int smack_task_movememory(struct task_struct *p) static int smack_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info, int sig, u32 secid) { - int rc; - - rc = cap_task_kill(p, info, sig, secid); - if (rc != 0) - return rc; /* * Special cases where signals really ought to go through * in spite of policy. Stephen Smalley suggests it may -- cgit v1.2.2