Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V2

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Fri Mar 06 2015 - 14:03:11 EST


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
>> Sorry, something about that patch-patch didn't make sense to me, but I
>> need to look more closely. My objection was that you were able to get the
>> pA capabilities into pP without them being in your pI. Your proposed
>> change didn't seem like it would fix that.
>
> Just tried to fix that. Could it be that cap_inherited is never set even
> for a binary that has
>
> christoph@fujitsu-haswell:~$ getcap ambient_test
>
> ambient_test = cap_setpcap,cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw,cap_sys_nice+eip

I think that's right. fI doesn't set pI.

--Andy
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