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Commit b338cb92 authored by Maciej Żenczykowski's avatar Maciej Żenczykowski Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf: Restore behaviour of CAP_SYS_ADMIN allowing the loading of networking bpf programs



This is a fix for a regression in commit 2c78ee89 ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF").
Before the above commit it was possible to load network bpf programs
with just the CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege.

The Android bpfloader happens to run in such a configuration (it has
SYS_ADMIN but not NET_ADMIN) and creates maps and loads bpf programs
for later use by Android's netd (which has NET_ADMIN but not SYS_ADMIN).

Fixes: 2c78ee89 ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
Reported-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200620212616.93894-1-zenczykowski@gmail.com
parent c4c0bdc0
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