Re: [PATCH v1] security/capabilities: remove check for -EINVAL

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Wed Aug 22 2018 - 09:58:29 EST


Quoting Christian Brauner (christian@xxxxxxxxxx):
> bprm_caps_from_vfs_caps() never returned -EINVAL so remove the
> rc == -EINVAL check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v0 -> v1
> - non-functional changes:
> adapt commit message to reflect the fact that
> bprm_caps_from_vfs_caps() never actuall returned -EINVAL.
> ---
> security/commoncap.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
> index f4c33abd9959..6012f0cd8157 100644
> --- a/security/commoncap.c
> +++ b/security/commoncap.c
> @@ -684,9 +684,6 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool *effective, bool *has_f
> }
>
> rc = bprm_caps_from_vfs_caps(&vcaps, bprm, effective, has_fcap);
> - if (rc == -EINVAL)
> - printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: cap_from_disk returned %d for %s\n",
> - __func__, rc, bprm->filename);
>
> out:
> if (rc)
> --
> 2.17.1