From 79f0713d403c800db9d89134e2fd7f846e68d6ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:10 -0700
Subject: prctl: use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE for PR_SET_MM option

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is already overloaded left and right, so to have more
fine-grained access control use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE here.

The CAP_SYS_RESOUCE is chosen because this prctl option allows a current
process to adjust some fields of memory map descriptor which rather
represents what the process owns: pointers to code, data, stack
segments, command line, auxiliary vector data and etc.

Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'kernel/sys.c')

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 40701538fbd..888d227fd19 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ static int prctl_set_mm(int opt, unsigned long addr,
 	if (arg4 | arg5)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	if (addr >= TASK_SIZE)
-- 
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