The setpriv executable from util-linux also dumps out information on the
different capability sets known by the kernel. By default, these are the
inheritable capabilities, bounding capabilities and (not yet released)
the ambient capabilities, which have been introduced with Linux 4.3.
This patch introduces the ability to dump the set of inheritable
capabilities.
By default, setpriv(1) identifies capabilities by their human-readable
name, for example 'net_admin'. For unknown capabilities, though, it does
instead use the capability's value, for example 'cap_12', which is
equivalent to 'net_admin'. As there is no kernel interface to retrieve
capability names by their index, we have to declare these ourselves,
which adds to setpriv's size.
To counteract, using the human-readble name has been made configurable.
The following sizes are with the 'FEATURE_SETPRIV_CAPABILITY_NAMES'
enabled:
function old new delta
.rodata 145969 146405 +436
setpriv_main 467 842 +375
capabilities - 304 +304
And with 'FEATURE_SETPRIV_CAPABILITY_NAMES' disabled:
function old new delta
setpriv_main 467 838 +371
.rodata 145969 146101 +132
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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