[PATCH 14/16] commoncap: remove cap_inode_getsecurity()

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Tue Dec 5 21:25:28 UTC 2023


On Nov 29, 2023 "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" <sforshee at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> Reading of fscaps xattrs is now done via vfs_get_fscaps(), so there is
> no longer any need to do it from security_inode_getsecurity(). Remove
> cap_inode_getsecurity() and its associated helpers which are now unused.
> 
> We don't allow reading capabilities xattrs this way anyomre, so remove
> the handler and associated helpers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee at kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/security.h |   5 +-
>  security/commoncap.c     | 132 -----------------------------------------------
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 136 deletions(-)

Once again, you should get Serge's ACK on the commoncap.c stuff, but
no objections from a LSM perspective.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> (LSM)

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