[PATCH 2/4] containers: add CAP_NS_OVERRIDE capability

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Mon Jan 28 11:09:40 PST 2008


>From ce1cf14000860f82ab59a5253bbe468da767e77f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sergeh at us.ibm.com <sergeh at us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:52:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] containers: add CAP_NS_OVERRIDE capability

containers: add CAP_NS_OVERRIDE capability

Signed-off-by: sergeh at us.ibm.com <hallyn at kernel.(none)>
---
 include/linux/capability.h |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
index 7d50ff6..58bc24e 100644
--- a/include/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -332,7 +332,14 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
 
 #define CAP_MAC_ADMIN        33
 
-#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_MAC_ADMIN
+/* Allow acting on resources in another namespace.  In
+   particular:
+      1. when combined with CAP_KILL, kill users in another
+         user namespace
+ */
+#define CAP_NS_OVERRIDE      34
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP         CAP_NS_OVERRIDE
 
 #define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)
 
-- 
1.5.1



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