Re: [PATCH] selinux: check CAP_SETFCAP for a particular inode & mapped user

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 01:48 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:16:11AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
>> > This allows setting "security.capability" xattr by a user that has
>> > CAP_SETFCAP in an userns with SELinux. Namespaced capabilities are
>> > supported, as of commit 8db6c34f1dbc ("Introduce v3 namespaced file
>> > capabilities").
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
>>
>> The fix is already on its way into the kernel - see the thread at
>> https://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=150713903925728&w=2
>
> Thanks for the response. I'm wondering if there are chances this could
> go to 4.14, given the patch that got merged seems reasonably self-
> contained, quite useful, and the release is going to be a long-term
> one.
>
> If rc5 is too late for such changes, are there changes it could perhaps
> go to a subsequent -stable release?

As a general rule I only send fixes, not new functionality, upwards
during the -rcX releases and this falls into the "functionality" not
"fix" category of patches.  I apply a similar approach to -stable
kernels.

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