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Commit 5563cabd authored by Michal Clapinski's avatar Michal Clapinski Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files

This commit removes the requirement to be root to modify sem_next_id,
msg_next_id and shm_next_id and checks checkpoint_restore_ns_capable
instead.

Since those files are specific to the IPC namespace, there is no reason
they should require root privileges.  This is similar to ns_last_pid,
which also only checks checkpoint_restore_ns_capable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: ipc/ipc_sysctl.c needs capability.h for checkpoint_restore_ns_capable()]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210916163717.3179496-1-mclapinski@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Clapinski <mclapinski@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 303f8e2d
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