From 2813893f8b197a14f1e1ddb04d99bce46817c84a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Iulia Manda Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:16:41 -0700 Subject: kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their functionality in init, running as root:root. For these systems, supporting multiple users is not necessary. This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional. It is enabled under CONFIG_EXPERT menu. When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case and processes always have all capabilities. The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid, setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups, getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset. Also, groups.c is compiled out completely. In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid adding two ifdef blocks. This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build. The most minimal kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than low MB. (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much. The kernel was booted in Qemu. All the common functionalities work. Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS. Bloat-o-meter output: add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/capability.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/capability.c') diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index 989f5bfc57dc..45432b54d5c6 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ static int __init file_caps_disable(char *str) } __setup("no_file_caps", file_caps_disable); +#ifdef CONFIG_MULTIUSER /* * More recent versions of libcap are available from: * @@ -386,6 +387,24 @@ bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_capable); + +/** + * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect + * @cap: The capability to be tested for + * + * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability currently + * available for use, false if not. + * + * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the + * assumption that it's about to be used. + */ +bool capable(int cap) +{ + return ns_capable(&init_user_ns, cap); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); +#endif /* CONFIG_MULTIUSER */ + /** * file_ns_capable - Determine if the file's opener had a capability in effect * @file: The file we want to check @@ -411,22 +430,6 @@ bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_ns_capable); -/** - * capable - Determine if the current task has a superior capability in effect - * @cap: The capability to be tested for - * - * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability currently - * available for use, false if not. - * - * This sets PF_SUPERPRIV on the task if the capability is available on the - * assumption that it's about to be used. - */ -bool capable(int cap) -{ - return ns_capable(&init_user_ns, cap); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); - /** * capable_wrt_inode_uidgid - Check nsown_capable and uid and gid mapped * @inode: The inode in question -- cgit v1.2.3