Revert 95ebabd ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file …

…capabilities")

commit 3b0c2d3 upstream.

It turns out that there are in fact userspace implementations that
care and this recent change caused a regression.

containers/buildah#3071

As the motivation for the original change was future development,
and the impact is existing real world code just revert this change
and allow the ambiguity in v3 file caps.

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 95ebabd ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 47a5d1b)
Signed-off-by: Jack Vogel <[email protected]>

security/commoncap.c

@@ -500,8 +500,7 @@ int cap_convert_nscap(struct dentry *dentry, void **ivalue, size_t size)
 	__u32 magic, nsmagic;
 	struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
 	struct user_namespace *task_ns = current_user_ns(),
-		*fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns,
-		*ancestor;
+		*fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
 	kuid_t rootid;
 	size_t newsize;
 
@@ -524,15 +523,6 @@ int cap_convert_nscap(struct dentry *dentry, void **ivalue, size_t size)
 	if (nsrootid == -1)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/*
-	 * Do not allow allow adding a v3 filesystem capability xattr
-	 * if the rootid field is ambiguous.
-	 */
-	for (ancestor = task_ns->parent; ancestor; ancestor = ancestor->parent) {
-		if (from_kuid(ancestor, rootid) == 0)
-			return -EINVAL;
-	}
-
 	newsize = sizeof(struct vfs_ns_cap_data);
 	nscap = kmalloc(newsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!nscap)