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proc: don't show nonexistent capabilities
authorAndrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:15:16 +0000 (12:15 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:49:59 +0000 (16:49 +1100)
commite4efce75cc2d007bfd21ab8192b389ac2d95cc10
treed00f1f5e8b51f2dacf3c75323d7527944c4fbe34
parentdf40603f4662578329189039e1a31fa80097af72
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