[PATCH] xfs: use has_capability_noaudit() instead of capable() where appropriate

Ondrej Mosnacek omosnace at redhat.com
Tue Mar 16 17:32:26 UTC 2021


In cases when a negative result of a capability check doesn't lead to an
immediate, user-visible error, only a subtle difference in behavior, it
is better to use has_capability_noaudit(current, ...), so that LSMs
(e.g. SELinux) don't generate a denial record in the audit log each time
the capability status is queried. This patch should cover all such cases
in fs/xfs/.

Note that I kept the capable(CAP_FSETID) checks, since these will only
be executed if the user explicitly tries to set the SUID/SGID bit, and
it likely makes sense to log such attempts even if the syscall doesn't
fail and just ignores the bits.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c | 4 ++--
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 5 ++++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c  | 6 ++++--
 fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c
index 9ce5e7d5bf8f..14672e7ee535 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c
@@ -842,8 +842,8 @@ xfs_getfsmap(
 	    !xfs_getfsmap_is_valid_device(mp, &head->fmh_keys[1]))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	use_rmap = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
-		   xfs_sb_version_hasrmapbt(&mp->m_sb);
+	use_rmap = xfs_sb_version_hasrmapbt(&mp->m_sb) &&
+		   has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
 	head->fmh_entries = 0;
 
 	/* Set up our device handlers. */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
index 3fbd98f61ea5..3cfc1a25069c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -1470,8 +1470,11 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr(
 
 	if (XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING(mp) && XFS_IS_PQUOTA_ON(mp) &&
 	    ip->i_d.di_projid != fa->fsx_projid) {
+		int flags = has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_FOWNER) ?
+			XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES : 0;
+
 		code = xfs_qm_vop_chown_reserve(tp, ip, NULL, NULL, pdqp,
-				capable(CAP_FOWNER) ?  XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES : 0);
+				flags);
 		if (code)	/* out of quota */
 			goto error_trans_cancel;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
index 67c8dc9de8aa..abbb417c4fbd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
@@ -729,10 +729,12 @@ xfs_setattr_nonsize(
 		if (XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING(mp) &&
 		    ((XFS_IS_UQUOTA_ON(mp) && !uid_eq(iuid, uid)) ||
 		     (XFS_IS_GQUOTA_ON(mp) && !gid_eq(igid, gid)))) {
+			int flags = has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_FOWNER) ?
+				XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES : 0;
+
 			ASSERT(tp);
 			error = xfs_qm_vop_chown_reserve(tp, ip, udqp, gdqp,
-						NULL, capable(CAP_FOWNER) ?
-						XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES : 0);
+						NULL, flags);
 			if (error)	/* out of quota */
 				goto out_cancel;
 		}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
index bca48b308c02..a99d19c2c11f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_xattr.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ xfs_xattr_put_listent(
 		 * Only show root namespace entries if we are actually allowed to
 		 * see them.
 		 */
-		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		if (!has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 			return;
 
 		prefix = XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX;
-- 
2.30.2



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