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authorAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2008-05-27 22:05:17 -0700
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2008-05-31 16:36:16 -0700
commitca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f (patch)
treeb39fba6604da4b4f77103d2769bb783118b9b508 /MAINTAINERS
parentcc94bc37d5e02aaf8a6409a28e3c62bbd479b9a8 (diff)
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 <morgan@kernel.org> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
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