[RFC PATCH 4/6] p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of /dev/caphash

[serue]

From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

Granting userid capabilities to another task is a dangerous
privilege.  Don't just let file permissions authorize it.
Define CAP_GRANT_ID as a new capability needed to write to
/dev/caphash.

For one thing this lets us start a factotum server early on
in init, then have init drop CAP_GRANT_ID from its bounding
set so the rest of the system cannot regain it.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: rsc@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ericvh@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c |    4 ++++
 include/linux/capability.h      |    6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c b/drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c
index 8f70daa..fb27459 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c
@@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ static ssize_t cap_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 			retval = -EINVAL;
 			goto out;
 		}
+		if (!capable(CAP_GRANT_ID)) {
+			retval = -EPERM;
+			goto out;
+		}
 		printk(KERN_INFO "Capability being written to /dev/caphash : \n");
 		hexdump(user_buf, count);
 		memcpy(node_ptr->data, user_buf, count);
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
index 39e5ff5..ba2cbfe 100644
--- a/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -355,7 +355,11 @@ struct cpu_vfs_cap_data {
 
 #define CAP_MAC_ADMIN        33
 
-#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_MAC_ADMIN
+/* Allow granting setuid capabilities through p9auth /dev/caphash */
+
+#define CAP_GRANT_ID         34
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_GRANT_ID
 
 #define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)
 
-- 
1.6.1

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