[cifs-utils PATCH] cifs.upcall: trim even more capabilities

Jeff Layton jlayton at samba.org
Thu Feb 16 14:59:13 UTC 2017


We really only need CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH, not CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, and
only when we are going to probe the environ file.

Also, fix the non-libcap-ng trim_capabilities prototype.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
---
 cifs.upcall.c | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cifs.upcall.c b/cifs.upcall.c
index 6d9c427b7032..dae58b919408 100644
--- a/cifs.upcall.c
+++ b/cifs.upcall.c
@@ -70,22 +70,21 @@ typedef enum _sectype {
 
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBCAP_NG
 static int
-trim_capabilities(bool need_ptrace)
+trim_capabilities(bool need_environ)
 {
 	capng_clear(CAPNG_SELECT_BOTH);
 
-	/*
-	 * Need PTRACE and DAC_OVERRIDE for environment scraping, SETGID to
-	 * change gid and grouplist, and SETUID to change uid.
-	 */
+	/* SETUID and SETGID to change uid, gid, and grouplist */
 	if (capng_updatev(CAPNG_ADD, CAPNG_PERMITTED|CAPNG_EFFECTIVE,
-			CAP_SETUID, CAP_SETGID, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, -1)) {
+			CAP_SETUID, CAP_SETGID, -1)) {
 		syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: Unable to update capability set: %m\n", __func__);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
-	if (need_ptrace &&
-	    capng_update(CAPNG_ADD, CAPNG_PERMITTED|CAPNG_EFFECTIVE, CAP_SYS_PTRACE)) {
+	 /* Need PTRACE and DAC_OVERRIDE for environment scraping */
+	if (need_environ &&
+	    capng_updatev(CAPNG_ADD, CAPNG_PERMITTED|CAPNG_EFFECTIVE,
+			CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH, -1)) {
 		syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: Unable to update capability set: %m\n", __func__);
 		return 1;
 	}
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ drop_all_capabilities(void)
 }
 #else /* HAVE_LIBCAP_NG */
 static int
-trim_capabilities(void)
+trim_capabilities(bool unused)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.9.3




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