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| author | Chris Wright | 2006-03-25 03:07:41 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -0800 |
| commit | 12b5989be10011387a9da5dee82e5c0d6f9d02e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 74da71d407bf26bf97c639bb2b473de233a736ac /security | |
| parent | 77d47582c2345e071df02afaf9191641009287c4 (diff) | |
[PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helper
Move capable() to kernel/capability.c and eliminate duplicate
implementations. Add __capable() function which can be used to check for
capabiilty of any process.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/security.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index f693e1f66b98..51ef509710b9 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -174,31 +174,8 @@ int mod_unreg_security(const char *name, struct security_operations *ops) return security_ops->unregister_security(name, ops); } -/** - * capable - calls the currently loaded security module's capable() function with the specified capability - * @cap: the requested capability level. - * - * This function calls the currently loaded security module's capable() - * function with a pointer to the current task and the specified @cap value. - * - * This allows the security module to implement the capable function call - * however it chooses to. - */ -int capable(int cap) -{ - if (security_ops->capable(current, cap)) { - /* capability denied */ - return 0; - } - - /* capability granted */ - current->flags |= PF_SUPERPRIV; - return 1; -} - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_security); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_security); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mod_reg_security); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mod_unreg_security); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_ops); |