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由 Serge Hallyn 提交于
The original justification for cap_task_kill() was as follows: check_kill_permission() does appropriate uid equivalence checks. However with file capabilities it becomes possible for an unprivileged user to execute a file with file capabilities resulting in a more privileged task with the same uid. However now that cap_task_kill() always returns 0 (permission granted) when p->uid==current->uid, the whole hook is worthless, and only likely to create more subtle problems in the corner cases where it might still be called but return -EPERM. Those cases are basically when uids are different but euid/suid is equivalent as per the check in check_kill_permission(). One example of a still-broken application is 'at' for non-root users. This patch removes cap_task_kill(). Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: NAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Earlier-version-tested-by: NLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Acked-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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