[PATCH] restore behaviour of CAP_SYS_ADMIN allowing the loading of net bpf program

From: Maciej Åenczykowski
Date: Thu Jun 18 2020 - 16:00:15 EST


From: Maciej Åenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is a 5.8-rc1 regression.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 2c78ee898d8f ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
Signed-off-by: Maciej Åenczykowski <maze@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 8da159936bab..7d946435587d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ static int bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, union bpf_attr __user *uattr)
!bpf_capable())
return -EPERM;

- if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (is_perfmon_prog_type(type) && !perfmon_capable())
return -EPERM;
--
2.27.0.290.gba653c62da-goog