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Commit ee24aebf authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now

In commit ce6ada35

 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).

Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated.  There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.

(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)

Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 67d01952
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