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authorChenbo Feng <fengc@google.com>2018-03-19 17:57:27 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-28 18:40:17 +0200
commitc9ea2f8af67399904fe9c72ab5192a0c0ae7f2bf (patch)
tree1710af4664f3eb4f8d529a0fda0de8b9fdc214fa
parentcbb5420a2fc021a8827bdf06ec38828bf1b43dc8 (diff)
bpf: skip unnecessary capability check
commit 0fa4fe85f4724fff89b09741c437cbee9cf8b008 upstream. The current check statement in BPF syscall will do a capability check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before checking sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled. This code path will trigger unnecessary security hooks on capability checking and cause false alarms on unprivileged process trying to get CAP_SYS_ADMIN access. This can be resolved by simply switch the order of the statement and CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not required anyway if unprivileged bpf syscall is allowed. Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@google.com> Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/bpf/syscall.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 424accd20c2d..dc19b6e210e6 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(bpf, int, cmd, union bpf_attr __user *, uattr, unsigned int, siz
union bpf_attr attr = {};
int err;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled)
+ if (sysctl_unprivileged_bpf_disabled && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, uattr, 1))