Attachment 17364 Details for Bug 15093 – patch fixing the gpfs capability use on AIX

[patch] patch fixing the gpfs capability use on AIX

0001-capabilites-fall-back-to-become_root-in-case-we-have.patch (text/plain), 1.16 KB, created by Björn Jacke on 2022-06-16 15:35:36 UTC

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Creator: Björn Jacke

Created: 2022-06-16 15:35:36 UTC

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>From 7abda35a7ec89440c75a295dc6f9161153d1b619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Jacke?= <bj@sernet.de>
>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:05:36 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH] capabilites: fall back to become_root in case we have no
> POSIX capability support
>
>On AIX for example there are no suitable POSIX capabilites - we need to fall
>back to become_root() in such cases.
>
>BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15093
>
>Signed-off-by: Bjoern Jacke <bjacke@samba.org>
>---
> source3/lib/system.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/source3/lib/system.c b/source3/lib/system.c
>index a786a7418bfd..3d251a361d44 100644
>--- a/source3/lib/system.c
>+++ b/source3/lib/system.c
>@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ void set_effective_capability(enum smbd_capability capability)
> {
> #if defined(HAVE_POSIX_CAPABILITIES)
> 	set_process_capability(capability, True);
>+#else
>+	become_root();
> #endif /* HAVE_POSIX_CAPABILITIES */
> }
> 
>@@ -627,6 +629,8 @@ void drop_effective_capability(enum smbd_capability capability)
> {
> #if defined(HAVE_POSIX_CAPABILITIES)
> 	set_process_capability(capability, False);
>+#else
>+	unbecome_root();
> #endif /* HAVE_POSIX_CAPABILITIES */
> }
> 
>-- 
>2.25.1
>

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