@@ -37,14 +37,7 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
switch (class) {
case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
- /*
- * Originally this only checked for CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
- * which was implicitly allowed for pid 0 by security
- * modules such as SELinux. Make sure we check
- * CAP_SYS_ADMIN first to avoid a denial/avc for
- * possibly missing CAP_SYS_NICE permission.
- */
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE))
+ if (!capable_any(CAP_SYS_NICE, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
fallthrough;
/* rt has prio field too */
Use the new added capable_any function in appropriate cases, where a task is required to have any of two capabilities. Reorder CAP_SYS_ADMIN last. Fixes: 94c4b4fd25e6 ("block: Check ADMIN before NICE for IOPRIO_CLASS_RT") Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com> --- v3: rename to capable_any() --- block/ioprio.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)