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author | Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> | 2015-04-15 16:16:41 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -0700 |
commit | 2813893f8b197a14f1e1ddb04d99bce46817c84a (patch) | |
tree | 650651e638f867a6bda23e08c70bdd9857d121ca /kernel/capability.c | |
parent | c79574abe2baddf569532e7e430e4977771dd25c (diff) |
kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities
There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root. For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.
This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional. It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.
When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.
The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.
Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.
In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.
This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build. The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB. (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.
The kernel was booted in Qemu. All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.
Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/capability.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/capability.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index 989f5bfc57dc..45432b54d5c6 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static int __init file_caps_disable(char *str) } __setup("no_file_caps", file_caps_disable); +#ifdef CONFIG_MULTIUSER /* * More recent versions of libcap are available from: * @@ -386,6 +387,24 @@ bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_capable); + +/** + * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect + * @cap: The capability to be tested for + * + * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability currently + * available for use, false if not. + * + * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the + * assumption that it's about to be used. + */ +bool capable(int cap) +{ + return ns_capable(&init_user_ns, cap); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); +#endif /* CONFIG_MULTIUSER */ + /** * file_ns_capable - Determine if the file's opener had a capability in effect * @file: The file we want to check @@ -412,22 +431,6 @@ bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_ns_capable); /** - * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect - * @cap: The capability to be tested for - * - * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability currently - * available for use, false if not. - * - * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the - * assumption that it's about to be used. - */ -bool capable(int cap) -{ - return ns_capable(&init_user_ns, cap); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); - -/** * capable_wrt_inode_uidgid - Check nsown_capable and uid and gid mapped * @inode: The inode in question * @cap: The capability in question |