[RFC PATCH 1/4] capabily: Add new capable_noaudit

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 01:45:20PM +0200, cem at kernel.org wrote:
> > +extern bool capable_noaudit(int cap);
> 
> No need for the extern.
> 
> Otherwise this does look nice an clean to me:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> But if the security folks don't like we can live with the more
> verbose version of it I guess.

Honestly I'm ok either way.  If people misunderstand the shortcut,
and ove-ruse it, that's safer than the other way.  The one that
scare me more is ns_capable(&current_user_ns, X).  I need to do an
audit of the current users of that.

So I'm happy to put

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>

on the set.