[PATCH v3 6/8] kernel: use new capable_any functionality

Christian Göttsche cgzones at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 15 15:26:20 UTC 2022


Use the new added capable_any function in appropriate cases, where a
task is required to have any of two capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones at googlemail.com>
---
v3:
   rename to capable_any()
---
 kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9d44f2d46c69..1665fb4591c7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	retval = -EAGAIN;
 	if (is_ucounts_overlimit(task_ucounts(p), UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC))) {
 		if (p->real_cred->user != INIT_USER &&
-		    !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		    !capable_any(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 			goto bad_fork_cleanup_count;
 	}
 	current->flags &= ~PF_NPROC_EXCEEDED;
-- 
2.36.1



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