Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:13:24 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@gmail.com>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linuxfoundation.org,
        "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
        Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:09:48PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > > Same problem as before. The ambient bits will not be set in pE'.
> >
> > And what if I weren't scatterbrained and we did
> >
> >  	if (pA)
> >  		pE' = pP'
> >  	else
> >  		pE' = pP' & fE
> >
> > All pP' bits would be set in pE'.
> 
> Ok and the non ambient case would break because fE is not available?
> Doesnt this reduce to
> 
> pE' = pP'
> 
> in either case?

No.  fE is not "not available".  If you set it with setcap, you *should*
(if i'm tinking right) find fE full when calculating the new capability
sets, because of magic_etc.
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