Commit 4a6e468c authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Min Chong
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UPSTREAM: fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid



(cherry picked from commit 23adbe12)

The kernel has no concept of capabilities with respect to inodes; inodes
exist independently of namespaces.  For example, inode_capable(inode,
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) would be nonsense.

This patch changes inode_capable to check for uid and gid mappings and
renames it to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid, which should make it more
obvious what it does.

Fixes CVE-2014-4014.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change-Id: I95e50729c93e93cf0f7d934e7ab3f0f7dfa1ebb0
Bug: 31252187
parent 41c324ed
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