Commit d6e0d306 authored Jun 02, 2016 by Tyler Hicks Committed by James Morris Jun 06, 2016

net: Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used
to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a
violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit
message was being generated.

The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors
because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To
prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is
switched to the noaudit variant.

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724



Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

parent 98f368e9

net/sysctl_net.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
		kgid_t root_gid = make_kgid(net->user_ns, 0);

		/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
		if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) \|\|
		if (ns_capable_noaudit(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) \|\|
		uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) {
		int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7;
		return (mode << 6) \| (mode << 3) \| mode;

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