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Diffstat (limited to 'src/shared')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shared/capability.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/shared/capability.c b/src/shared/capability.c index 65d7e038a7..b1be043803 100644 --- a/src/shared/capability.c +++ b/src/shared/capability.c @@ -54,11 +54,25 @@ int have_effective_cap(int value) { unsigned long cap_last_cap(void) { static thread_local unsigned long saved; static thread_local bool valid = false; + _cleanup_free_ char *content = NULL; unsigned long p; + int r; if (valid) return saved; + /* available since linux-3.2 */ + r = read_one_line_file("/proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap", &content); + if (r >= 0) { + r = safe_atolu(content, &p); + if (r >= 0) { + saved = p; + valid = true; + return p; + } + } + + /* fall back to syscall-probing for pre linux-3.2 */ p = (unsigned long) CAP_LAST_CAP; if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_READ, p) < 0) { |