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cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:53:55 +0000 (17:53 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:53:55 +0000 (17:53 -0800)
commitfbad97446008280b1ff7385857ddd352b646a758
treeed1eafa8b1a30b078c9fa680aafbb49632921a0d
parent28bb1bf708bc597eaacc2edbc2fabc784c075209
cap_syslog: accept CAP_SYS_ADMIN for now

In commit 881d94f69ce6 ("security: Define CAP_SYSLOG") Serge Hallyn
introduced CAP_SYSLOG, but broke backwards compatibility by no longer
accepting CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an override (it would cause a warning and
then reject the operation).

Re-instate CAP_SYS_ADMIN - but keeping the warning - as an acceptable
capability until any legacy applications have been updated.  There are
apparently applications out there that drop all capabilities except for
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in order to access the syslog.

(This is a re-implementation of a patch by Serge, cleaning the logic up
and making the code more readable)

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/printk.c