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security/inode.c: Add capabilities file.
This new read-only file prints the capabilities values with their names:
cat /sys/kernel/security/capabilities
0       CAP_CHOWN
1       CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
...
40      CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

Signed-off-by: Francis Laniel <flaniel@linux.microsoft.com>
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eiffel-fl authored and intel-lab-lkp committed Jan 20, 2022
1 parent abfea5b commit 48b37f6e79a73709d7bcf17ea19464073f5da9b6
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/lsm_hooks.h>
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>

static struct vfsmount *mount;
static int mount_count;
@@ -328,6 +329,19 @@ static const struct file_operations lsm_ops = {
};
#endif

static struct dentry *capabilities_dentry;
static ssize_t capabilities_read(struct file *unused, char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, cap_string,
strlen(cap_string));
}

static const struct file_operations capabilities_ops = {
.read = capabilities_read,
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
};

static int __init securityfs_init(void)
{
int retval;
@@ -345,6 +359,8 @@ static int __init securityfs_init(void)
lsm_dentry = securityfs_create_file("lsm", 0444, NULL, NULL,
&lsm_ops);
#endif
capabilities_dentry = securityfs("capabilities", 0444, NULL, NULL,
capabilities_ops);
return 0;
}
core_initcall(securityfs_init);

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