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| author | Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> | 2024-12-19 17:28:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org> | 2025-03-07 22:03:09 -0600 |
| commit | 4ae89b1fe7c2e37a8f2ea39765e4c40c9d42a101 (patch) | |
| tree | 1628063855da804e4802a89fe3fb50f31e77e961 /security | |
| parent | 2014c95afecee3e76ca4a56956a936e23283f05b (diff) | |
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capability: Remove unused has_capability
The vanilla has_capability() function has been unused since 2018's
commit dcb569cf6ac9 ("Smack: ptrace capability use fixes")
Remove it.
Fixup a comment in security/commoncap.c that referenced it.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/commoncap.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 58a0c1c3e409..28d4248bf001 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -115,10 +115,11 @@ static inline int cap_capable_helper(const struct cred *cred, * Determine whether the nominated task has the specified capability amongst * its effective set, returning 0 if it does, -ve if it does not. * - * NOTE WELL: cap_has_capability() cannot be used like the kernel's capable() - * and has_capability() functions. That is, it has the reverse semantics: - * cap_has_capability() returns 0 when a task has a capability, but the - * kernel's capable() and has_capability() returns 1 for this case. + * NOTE WELL: cap_capable() has reverse semantics to the capable() call + * and friends. That is cap_capable() returns an int 0 when a task has + * a capability, while the kernel's capable(), has_ns_capability(), + * has_ns_capability_noaudit(), and has_capability_noaudit() return a + * bool true (1) for this case. */ int cap_capable(const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *target_ns, int cap, unsigned int opts) |