capabilities: clean up file capability reading
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:41:38 +0000 (16:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:13:18 +0000 (08:13 -0700)
Simplify the vfs_cap_data structure.

Also fix get_file_caps which was declaring
__le32 v1caps[XATTR_CAPS_SZ] on the stack, but
XATTR_CAPS_SZ is already * sizeof(__le32).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/capability.h
security/commoncap.c

index 7a8d7ade28a035b106cf025c4faa74c18ee8b229..bb017edffd56816099064f7367f925c15277aa09 100644 (file)
@@ -56,10 +56,8 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
 
 struct vfs_cap_data {
        __u32 magic_etc;  /* Little endian */
-       struct {
-               __u32 permitted;    /* Little endian */
-               __u32 inheritable;  /* Little endian */
-       } data[1];
+       __u32 permitted;    /* Little endian */
+       __u32 inheritable;  /* Little endian */
 };
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
index 43f902750a1b6c802d650b6e9bbafde70ec8ae70..bf67871173efbabbe2ad47a04ba1f24cbc6d3eeb 100644 (file)
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@ int cap_inode_killpriv(struct dentry *dentry)
        return inode->i_op->removexattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS);
 }
 
-static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *caps, struct linux_binprm *bprm,
+static inline int cap_from_disk(struct vfs_cap_data *caps,
+                               struct linux_binprm *bprm,
                                int size)
 {
        __u32 magic_etc;
@@ -198,7 +199,7 @@ static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *caps, struct linux_binprm *bprm,
        if (size != XATTR_CAPS_SZ)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       magic_etc = le32_to_cpu(caps[0]);
+       magic_etc = le32_to_cpu(caps->magic_etc);
 
        switch ((magic_etc & VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK)) {
        case VFS_CAP_REVISION:
@@ -206,8 +207,8 @@ static inline int cap_from_disk(__le32 *caps, struct linux_binprm *bprm,
                        bprm->cap_effective = true;
                else
                        bprm->cap_effective = false;
-               bprm->cap_permitted = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps[1]) );
-               bprm->cap_inheritable = to_cap_t( le32_to_cpu(caps[2]) );
+               bprm->cap_permitted = to_cap_t(le32_to_cpu(caps->permitted));
+               bprm->cap_inheritable = to_cap_t(le32_to_cpu(caps->inheritable));
                return 0;
        default:
                return -EINVAL;
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
        struct dentry *dentry;
        int rc = 0;
-       __le32 v1caps[XATTR_CAPS_SZ];
+       struct vfs_cap_data incaps;
        struct inode *inode;
 
        if (bprm->file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID) {
@@ -232,8 +233,14 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
        if (!inode->i_op || !inode->i_op->getxattr)
                goto out;
 
-       rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS, &v1caps,
-                                                       XATTR_CAPS_SZ);
+       rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS, NULL, 0);
+       if (rc > 0) {
+               if (rc == XATTR_CAPS_SZ)
+                       rc = inode->i_op->getxattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
+                                               &incaps, XATTR_CAPS_SZ);
+               else
+                       rc = -EINVAL;
+       }
        if (rc == -ENODATA || rc == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
                /* no data, that's ok */
                rc = 0;
@@ -242,7 +249,7 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
        if (rc < 0)
                goto out;
 
-       rc = cap_from_disk(v1caps, bprm, rc);
+       rc = cap_from_disk(&incaps, bprm, rc);
        if (rc)
                printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: cap_from_disk returned %d for %s\n",
                        __FUNCTION__, rc, bprm->filename);