Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] commoncap: Move cap_elevated calculation into bprm_set_creds

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Instead of a separate function, open-code the cap_elevated test, which
> lets us entirely remove bprm->cap_effective (to use the local "effective"
> variable instead), and more accurately examine euid/egid changes via the
> existing local "is_setid".

...

> -static int is_secureexec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
> -{
> -       const struct cred *cred = bprm->cred;
> -       kuid_t root_uid = make_kuid(cred->user_ns, 0);
> -
> -       if (!uid_eq(cred->uid, root_uid)) {
> -               if (bprm->cap_effective)
> -                       return 1;
> -               if (!cap_issubset(cred->cap_permitted, cred->cap_ambient))
> -                       return 1;
> +       bprm->cap_elevated = 0;
> +       if (is_setid) {
> +               bprm->cap_elevated = 1;
> +       } else if (!uid_eq(new->uid, root_uid)) {
> +               if (effective ||
> +                   !cap_issubset(new->cap_permitted, new->cap_ambient))
> +                       bprm->cap_elevated = 1;
>         }
>
> -       return (!uid_eq(cred->euid, cred->uid) ||
> -               !gid_eq(cred->egid, cred->gid));
> +       return 0;

I think this matches the old behavior.  IOW it looks right.