capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged We allow task A to change B's nice level if it has a supserset of B's privileges, or of it has CAP_SYS_NICE. Also allow it if A has CAP_SYS_NICE with respect to B - meaning it is root in the same namespace, or it created B's namespace. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 9fccf71..b9d613e 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -768,16 +768,16 @@ */ static int cap_safe_nice(struct task_struct *p) { - int is_subset; + int is_subset, ret = 0; rcu_read_lock(); is_subset = cap_issubset(__task_cred(p)->cap_permitted, current_cred()->cap_permitted); + if (!is_subset && !ns_capable(__task_cred(p)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_NICE)) + ret = -EPERM; rcu_read_unlock(); - if (!is_subset && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) - return -EPERM; - return 0; + return ret; } /**