From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:24:31 -0700
> From: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]> > [dtor: reapplied after e79c6a4fc923 ("net: make net namespace sysctls > belong to container's owner") accidentally reverted the change.] > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> Applied, but please be clear in the future what tree a patch is targetting, in this case 'net-next'. You can indicate this in the Subject line "[PATCH net-next]".
