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/sys.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/sys.c') diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index a03d9cd23ed7..3be344902316 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ out_unlock: * SMP: There are not races, the GIDs are checked only by filesystem * operations (as far as semantic preservation is concerned). */ +#ifdef CONFIG_MULTIUSER SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setregid, gid_t, rgid, gid_t, egid) { struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns(); @@ -815,6 +816,7 @@ change_okay: commit_creds(new); return old_fsgid; } +#endif /* CONFIG_MULTIUSER */ /** * sys_getpid - return the thread group id of the current process -- cgit v1.2.3