[PATCH V3 02/10] capabilities: intuitive names for cap gain status

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com> wrote:
> Quoting Richard Guy Briggs (rgb at redhat.com):
>> On 2017-08-24 11:03, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> > Quoting Richard Guy Briggs (rgb at redhat.com):
>> > > Introduce macros cap_gained, cap_grew, cap_full to make the use of the
>> > > negation of is_subset() easier to read and analyse.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
>> > > ---
>> > >  security/commoncap.c |   16 ++++++++++------
>> > >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
>> > > index b7fbf77..6f05ec0 100644
>> > > --- a/security/commoncap.c
>> > > +++ b/security/commoncap.c
>> > > @@ -513,6 +513,12 @@ void handle_privileged_root(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool has_cap, bool *effec
>> > >           *effective = true;
>> > >  }
>> > >
>> >
>> > It's subjective and so might be just me, but I think I'd find it easier
>> > to read if it was cap_gained(source, target, field) and cap_grew(cred, source, target)
>>
>> In more than one place, I wanted to put the parameter that I was trying
>> to read aloud closest to the function name to make reading it flow
>> better, leaving the parameters less critical to comprehension towards
>> the end.
>
> And I see that in the final patch it looks nicer the way you have it.
>
>> > This looks correct though, so either way
>> >
>> > Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>
>>
>> Thanks.  Did you want to put this through, or send it through Paul's
>> audit tree?
>
> If Paul's around I'm happy to have it go through his tree.

Is this series based against -next with the changes that touch commoncap.c?

Also, did you validate this with the existing LTP tests and selftests?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/secureexec&id=ee67ae7ef6ff499137292ac8a9dfe86096796283

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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