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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: remove CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
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Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>

Cheers

Andrew

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Remove the option to compile the kernel without file capabilities. Not
> compiling file capabilities actually makes the kernel less safe, as it
> includes the possibility for a task changing another task's capabilities.
>
> Some are concerned that userspace tools (and user education) are not
> up to the task of properly configuring file capabilities on a system.
> For those cases, there is now the ability to boot with the no_file_caps
> boot option. This will prevent file capabilities from being used in
> the capabilities recalculation at exec, but will not change the rest
> of the kernel behavior which used to be switchable using the
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> fs/open.c | 8 --
> include/linux/capability.h | 2 -
> include/linux/init_task.h | 4 -
> kernel/capability.c | 158 --------------------------------------------
> security/Kconfig | 9 ---
> security/commoncap.c | 53 ---------------
> 6 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 234 deletions(-)
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