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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On May 15, 2015 11:31 PM, "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be best to start a complete new thread about this. You
>> replied to earlier posts about ambient capabilities and
>> people may not see it as a new release.
>>
>> > pA obeys the invariant that no bit can ever be set in pA if it is
>> > not set in both pP and pI. Dropping a bit from pP or pI drops that
>> > bit from pA. This ensures that existing programs that try to drop
>> > capabilities still do so, with a complication. Because capability
>>
>> Ok that is a good improvement.
>>
>> > inheritance is so broken, setting KEEPCAPS, using setresuid to
>> > switch to nonroot uids, or calling execve effectively drops
>> > capabilities. Therefore, setresuid from root to nonroot
>> > conditionally clears pA unless SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP is set.
>> > Processes that don't like this can re-add bits to pA afterwards.
>> >
>> > The capability evolution rules are changed:
>> >
>> > pA' = (file caps or setuid or setgid ? 0 : pA)
>> > pP' = (X & fP) | (pI & fI) | pA'
>> > pI' = pI
>> > pE' = (fE ? pP' : pA')
>>
>> Isnt this equal to
>>
>> pE' = (fE & pP') | pA'
>>
>> which does not require conditionals and is symmetric to how pP' is
>> calculated. Your formula seems to indicate that pA' bits are not set if
>> fE is set. However they are already set unconditionally in pP' regardless.
>> This makes it more explicit I think. And I thought we are dealing with
>> bitmask arithmetic here?
>
> I think you're right, except that fE is a Boolean, not a bit mask, so
> fE | pP' is an odd thing to talk about.
>
> We could say (fE ? pP' : 0) | pA', which could simplify the code a tiny bit.

It turns out that would be almost a pure addition of code, so I'll
leave it as is.

--Andy


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