On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Tyler Hicks wrote: > The capability check should not be audited since it is only being used > to determine the inode permissions. A failed check does not indicate a > violation of security policy but, when an LSM is enabled, a denial audit > message was being generated. > > The denial audit message caused confusion for some application authors > because root-running Go applications always triggered the denial. To > prevent this confusion, the capability check in net_ctl_permissions() is > switched to the noaudit variant. > > BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1465724 > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@canonical.com> > Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com>
Both applied to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next -- James Morris <jmor...@namei.org>