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Commit 951880e6 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Revert "capabitlies: ns_capable can use the cap helpers rather than lsm call"



This reverts commit d2a7009f.

J. R. Okajima explains:

 "After this commit, I am afraid access(2) on NFS may not work
  correctly.  The scenario based upon my guess.
   - access(2) overrides the credentials.
   - calls inode_permission() -- ... -- generic_permission() --
      ns_capable().
   - while the old ns_capable() calls security_capable(current_cred()),
     the new ns_capable() calls has_ns_capability(current) --
     security_capable(__task_cred(t)).

  current_cred() returns current->cred which is effective (overridden)
  credentials, but __task_cred(current) returns current->real_cred (the
  NFSD's credential).  And the overridden credentials by access(2) lost."

Requested-by: default avatarJ. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c2bc3a31
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