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proc: don't show nonexistent capabilities
authorAndrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:23:04 +0000 (15:23 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:01:11 +0000 (15:01 +1100)
commita2c57b6aa47d152a3da3b12a38f2d6968142c9d4
tree61de239f529f0f8391a84a6d95995af71c388fb7
parent03c4f64602bdfa996251ab27005323f8748020f4
proc: don't show nonexistent capabilities

Without this patch it is really hard to interpret a bounding set, if
CAP_LAST_CAP is unknown for a current kernel.

Non-existant capabilities can not be deleted from a bounding set with help
of prctl.

E.g.: Here are two examples without/with this patch.
CapBnd: ffffffe0fdecffff
CapBnd: 00000000fdecffff

I suggest to hide non-existent capabilities. Here is two reasons.
* It's logically and easier for using.
* It helps to checkpoint-restore capabilities of tasks, because tasks
can be restored on another kernel, where CAP_LAST_CAP is bigger.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/array.c