In the face of containers and user namespaces, a uid==0 check for
security is not safe. Switch to a capability check.
I'm not sure I picked the right capability, but this being AGP
CAP_SYS_RAWIO seemed to make sense.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
set_bit(AGP_FF_ALLOW_CLIENT, &priv->access_flags);
priv->my_pid = current->pid;
- if ((current->uid == 0) || (current->suid == 0)) {
+ if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
/* Root priv, can be controller */
set_bit(AGP_FF_ALLOW_CONTROLLER, &priv->access_flags);
}