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SubjectRe: [v2 2/2] vfio iommu type1: fix the testing of capability for remote task
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Jike Song wrote:

> Before the mdev enhancement type1 iommu used capable() to test the
> capability of current task; in the course of mdev development a
> new requirement, testing for another task other than current, was
> raised. ns_capable() was used for this purpose, however it still
> tests current, the only difference is, in a specified namespace.
>
> Fix it by using has_capability() instead, which tests the cap for
> specified task in init_user_ns, the same namespace as capable().
>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

> ---
> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index 9266271..77373e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -495,8 +495,7 @@ static int vfio_pin_page_external(struct vfio_dma *dma, unsigned long vaddr,
> unsigned long *pfn_base, bool do_accounting)
> {
> unsigned long limit;
> - bool lock_cap = ns_capable(task_active_pid_ns(dma->task)->user_ns,
> - CAP_IPC_LOCK);
> + bool lock_cap = has_capability(dma->task, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
> struct mm_struct *mm;
> int ret;
> bool rsvd;
>

--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

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