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bpf: Do not audit capability check in do_jit()
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-105376
Upstream Status: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git
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Author: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Oct 21 14:27:58 2025 +0200
bpf: Do not audit capability check in do_jit()
The failure of this check only results in a security mitigation being
applied, slightly affecting performance of the compiled BPF program. It
doesn't result in a failed syscall, an thus auditing a failed LSM
permission check for it is unwanted. For example with SELinux, it causes
a denial to be reported for confined processes running as root, which
tends to be flagged as a problem to be fixed in the policy. Yet
dontauditing or allowing CAP_SYS_ADMIN to the domain may not be
desirable, as it would allow/silence also other checks - either going
against the principle of least privilege or making debugging potentially
harder.
Fix it by changing it from capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), which
instructs the LSMs to not audit the resulting denials.
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369326
Fixes: d4e89d2 ("x86/bpf: Call branch history clearing sequence on exit")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251021122758.2659513-1-omosnace@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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