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bpf: Restore behaviour of CAP_SYS_ADMIN allowing the loading of netwo…
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…rking bpf programs

This is a fix for a regression in commit 2c78ee8 ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF").
Before the above commit it was possible to load network bpf programs
with just the CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege.

The Android bpfloader happens to run in such a configuration (it has
SYS_ADMIN but not NET_ADMIN) and creates maps and loads bpf programs
for later use by Android's netd (which has NET_ADMIN but not SYS_ADMIN).

Fixes: 2c78ee8 ("bpf: Implement CAP_BPF")
Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200620212616.93894-1-zenczykowski@gmail.com
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Maciej Żenczykowski authored and Alexei Starovoitov committed Jun 24, 2020
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/bpf/syscall.c
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Expand Up @@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ static int bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, union bpf_attr __user *uattr)
!bpf_capable())
return -EPERM;

if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
if (is_net_admin_prog_type(type) && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (is_perfmon_prog_type(type) && !perfmon_capable())
return -EPERM;
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