On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:44 PM John Stultz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 2:26 PM Maciej Żenczykowski
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]>
> >
> > This is a fix for a regression introduced in 5.8-rc1 by:
> >   commit 2c78ee898d8f10ae6fb2fa23a3fbaec96b1b7366
> >   'bpf: Implement CAP_BPF'
> >
> > Before the above commit it was possible to load network bpf programs
> > with just the CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege.
> >
> > The Android bpfloader happens to run in such a configuration (it has
> > SYS_ADMIN but not NET_ADMIN) and creates maps and loads bpf programs
> > for later use by Android's netd (which has NET_ADMIN but not SYS_ADMIN).
> >
> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
> > Fixes: 2c78ee898d8f ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks so much for helping narrow this regression down and submitting this 
> fix!
> It's much appreciated!
>
> Tested-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>

Applied to bpf tree. Thanks

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