Re: [PATCH] capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fixbuild failure

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Eric Paris (eparis@xxxxxxxxxx):
> @@ -274,7 +274,20 @@ int do_syslog(int type, char __user *buf, int len, bool from_file)
>  	char c;
>  	int error = 0;
>  
> -	error = security_syslog(type, from_file);
> +	/*
> +	 * If this is from /proc/kmsg we only do the capabilities checks
> +	 * at open time.
> +	 */
> +	if (type == SYSLOG_ACTION_OPEN || !from_file) {
> +		if (dmesg_restrict && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))

Any chance we could introduce a new capability for this?

thanks,
-serge
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