From: Tyler Hicks <tyhi...@canonical.com> 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> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com> [dtor: reapplied after e79c6a4fc923 ("net: make net namespace sysctls belong to container's owner") accidentally reverted the change.] Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> --- net/sysctl_net.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sysctl_net.c b/net/sysctl_net.c index c5d37f4..9199813 100644 --- a/net/sysctl_net.c +++ b/net/sysctl_net.c @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head, struct net *net = container_of(head->set, struct net, sysctls); /* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */ - if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) { + if (ns_capable_noaudit(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) { int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7; return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode; } -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020 -- Dmitry
