[RFC PATCH 4/4] capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 01:45:23PM +0200, cem at kernel.org wrote:
> From: Carlos Maiolino <cem at kernel.org>
> 
> This has been originally exported to be used in xfs. Givin we are not
> using it anymore, unexport for consistency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino at redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/capability.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
> index 2c2d1e8300bd..3d0387fb93a3 100644
> --- a/kernel/capability.c
> +++ b/kernel/capability.c
> @@ -326,7 +326,6 @@ bool has_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t, int cap)
>  {
>  	return has_ns_capability_noaudit(t, &init_user_ns, cap);
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(has_capability_noaudit);

Please update the kerneldoc for this function to mention that it only
checks real capability, not effective capability.  I'd like to prevent
someone else from making the same mistakes I did with these functions
that sound the same in documentation but have very different behaviors.

Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong at kernel.org>

--D

>  
>  static bool ns_capable_common(struct user_namespace *ns,
>  			      int cap,
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
>