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authorIulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>2015-04-15 16:16:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-15 16:35:22 -0700
commit2813893f8b197a14f1e1ddb04d99bce46817c84a (patch)
tree650651e638f867a6bda23e08c70bdd9857d121ca /include/linux/cred.h
parentc79574abe2baddf569532e7e430e4977771dd25c (diff)
kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities
There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their functionality in init, running as root:root. For these systems, supporting multiple users is not necessary. This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional. It is enabled under CONFIG_EXPERT menu. When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case and processes always have all capabilities. The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid, setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups, getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset. Also, groups.c is compiled out completely. In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid adding two ifdef blocks. This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build. The most minimal kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than low MB. (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much. The kernel was booted in Qemu. All the common functionalities work. Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS. Bloat-o-meter output: add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cred.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cred.h23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 2fb2ca2127ed..8b6c083e68a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -62,9 +62,27 @@ do { \
groups_free(group_info); \
} while (0)
-extern struct group_info *groups_alloc(int);
extern struct group_info init_groups;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MULTIUSER
+extern struct group_info *groups_alloc(int);
extern void groups_free(struct group_info *);
+
+extern int in_group_p(kgid_t);
+extern int in_egroup_p(kgid_t);
+#else
+static inline void groups_free(struct group_info *group_info)
+{
+}
+
+static inline int in_group_p(kgid_t grp)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
+static inline int in_egroup_p(kgid_t grp)
+{
+ return 1;
+}
+#endif
extern int set_current_groups(struct group_info *);
extern void set_groups(struct cred *, struct group_info *);
extern int groups_search(const struct group_info *, kgid_t);
@@ -74,9 +92,6 @@ extern bool may_setgroups(void);
#define GROUP_AT(gi, i) \
((gi)->blocks[(i) / NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK][(i) % NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK])
-extern int in_group_p(kgid_t);
-extern int in_egroup_p(kgid_t);
-
/*
* The security context of a task
*