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Silence the existing API for capability version compatibility check.

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When libcap, or other libraries attempt to confirm/determine the supported
capability version magic, they generally supply a NULL dataptr to capget().

In this case, while returning the supported/preferred magic (via a
modified header content), the return code of this system call may be 0,
-EINVAL, or -EFAULT.

No libcap code depends on the previous -EINVAL etc. return code, and
all of the above three return codes can accompany a valid (successful)
attempt to determine the requested magic value.

This patch cleans up the system call to return 0, if the call is
successfully being used to determine the supported/preferred capability
magic value.

Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Andrew G. Morgan 2009-11-23 04:57:52 +00:00 committed by James Morris
parent fe542cf59b
commit c4a5af54c8
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_t, header, cap_user_data_t, dataptr)
kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP;
ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy);
if (ret != 0)
return ret;
if ((dataptr == NULL) || (ret != 0))
return ((dataptr == NULL) && (ret == -EINVAL)) ? 0 : ret;
if (get_user(pid, &header->pid))
return -EFAULT;