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Revert 95ebabde382c ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:07:09 +0000 (15:07 -0600)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:27:14 +0000 (15:27 -0600)
commit3b0c2d3eaa83da259d7726192cf55a137769012f
tree93da4ea47d3c08583033f8b1c7b0f1a9c40bb902
parenta38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15
Revert 95ebabde382c ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")

It turns out that there are in fact userspace implementations that
care and this recent change caused a regression.

https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/3071

As the motivation for the original change was future development,
and the impact is existing real world code just revert this change
and allow the ambiguity in v3 file caps.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 95ebabde382c ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
security/commoncap.c