From ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew G. Morgan" Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:05:17 -0700 Subject: capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support. Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but true. Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using sys_capset(). As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation for all. It 1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its legacy value. 2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal implementation of the preferred magic. 3. deprecates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2, the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel to log a "deprecated" warning so the admin can find applications that may be using v2 inappropriately. [User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first to support v3 capabilities.] Fixes issue reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447518. Thanks to Bojan Smojver for the report. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depreciate/deprecate/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be robust about put_user size] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Bojan Smojver Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- fs/proc/array.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/proc') diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index 9e3b8c33c24..797d775e035 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static void render_cap_t(struct seq_file *m, const char *header, seq_printf(m, "%s", header); CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) { seq_printf(m, "%08x", - a->cap[(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S-1) - __capi]); + a->cap[(_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S-1) - __capi]); } seq_printf(m, "\n"); } -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258