userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace. As the capabilites and capability bounding set are per user namespace properties it is safe to allow changing them with just CAP_SETPCAP permission in the user namespace. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index c44b6fe..9fccf71 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ */ static long cap_prctl_drop(struct cred *new, unsigned long cap) { - if (!capable(CAP_SETPCAP)) + if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SETPCAP)) return -EPERM; if (!cap_valid(cap)) return -EINVAL;