Silence the existing API for capability version compatibility check.

When libcap, or other libraries attempt to confirm/determine the supported
capability version magic, they generally supply a NULL dataptr to capget().

In this case, while returning the supported/preferred magic (via a
modified header content), the return code of this system call may be 0,
-EINVAL, or -EFAULT.

No libcap code depends on the previous -EINVAL etc. return code, and
all of the above three return codes can accompany a valid (successful)
attempt to determine the requested magic value.

This patch cleans up the system call to return 0, if the call is
successfully being used to determine the supported/preferred capability
magic value.

Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index c2316d3fa09..c450375e855 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(capget, cap_user_header_t, header, cap_user_data_t, dataptr)
 	kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP;
 
 	ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy);
-	if (ret != 0)
-		return ret;
+	if ((dataptr == NULL) || (ret != 0))
+		return ((dataptr == NULL) && (ret == -EINVAL)) ? 0 : ret;
 
 	if (get_user(pid, &header->pid))
 		return -EFAULT;