diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | security/commoncap.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 5bc1895f3f9..ea61bc73f6d 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ int cap_netlink_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, int cap) EXPORT_SYMBOL(cap_netlink_recv); +/* + * NOTE WELL: cap_capable() cannot be used like the kernel's capable() + * function. That is, it has the reverse semantics: cap_capable() + * returns 0 when a task has a capability, but the kernel's capable() + * returns 1 for this case. + */ int cap_capable (struct task_struct *tsk, int cap) { /* Derived from include/linux/sched.h:capable. */ @@ -107,10 +113,11 @@ static inline int cap_block_setpcap(struct task_struct *target) static inline int cap_inh_is_capped(void) { /* - * return 1 if changes to the inheritable set are limited - * to the old permitted set. + * Return 1 if changes to the inheritable set are limited + * to the old permitted set. That is, if the current task + * does *not* possess the CAP_SETPCAP capability. */ - return !cap_capable(current, CAP_SETPCAP); + return (cap_capable(current, CAP_SETPCAP) != 0); } #else /* ie., ndef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */ |