From c4a5af54c8ef277a59189fc9358e190f3c1b8206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew G. Morgan" Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:57:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Silence the existing API for capability version compatibility check. When libcap, or other libraries attempt to confirm/determine the supported capability version magic, they generally supply a NULL dataptr to capget(). In this case, while returning the supported/preferred magic (via a modified header content), the return code of this system call may be 0, -EINVAL, or -EFAULT. No libcap code depends on the previous -EINVAL etc. return code, and all of the above three return codes can accompany a valid (successful) attempt to determine the requested magic value. This patch cleans up the system call to return 0, if the call is successfully being used to determine the supported/preferred capability magic value. Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Acked-by: Steve Grubb Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: James Morris --- kernel/capability.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index c2316d3fa094..c450375e855f 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_t, header, cap_user_data_t, dataptr) kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP; ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy); - if (ret != 0) - return ret; + if ((dataptr == NULL) || (ret != 0)) + return ((dataptr == NULL) && (ret == -EINVAL)) ? 0 : ret; if (get_user(pid, &header->pid)) return -EFAULT;