capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
authorSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:18:53 +0000 (13:18 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Sat, 31 Aug 2013 06:44:09 +0000 (23:44 -0700)
We allow task A to change B's nice level if it has a supserset of
B's privileges, or of it has CAP_SYS_NICE.  Also allow it if A has
CAP_SYS_NICE with respect to B - meaning it is root in the same
namespace, or it created B's namespace.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
security/commoncap.c

Simple merge