On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> This adds ambient capabilities.  See the individual patch changelogs
> for details.
>
> Preliminary userspace code is here:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/util-linux-playground.git/commit/?h=cap_ambient&id=7f5afbd175d2
>
> James or akpm, I think this is ready for 4.2.  Can one of you queue it up?

akpm / James: Ping?  Do I need more acks?

--Andy

>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> Changes from v2:
>  - Improve the patch 1 changelog a bit.
>  - Add acks.
>  - Add comment clarifying the pE' rule.
>  - s/except/expect
>
> Changes from v1:
>  - Lots of cleanups to the ambient cap code.
>  - The securebit is new.
>
> Andy Lutomirski (2):
>   capabilities: Ambient capabilities
>   capabilities: Add a securebit to disable PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE
>
>  fs/proc/array.c                 |  5 ++-
>  include/linux/cred.h            |  8 ++++
>  include/uapi/linux/prctl.h      |  6 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/securebits.h | 11 ++++-
>  kernel/user_namespace.c         |  1 +
>  security/commoncap.c            | 92 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  security/keys/process_keys.c    |  1 +
>  7 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>



-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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