generic_permission: MAY_OPEN is not write access
generic_permission was refusing CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH-enabled processes from opening DAC-protected files read-only, because do_filp_open adds MAY_OPEN to the open mask. Ignore MAY_OPEN. After this patch, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is again sufficient to open(fname, O_RDONLY) on a file to which DAC otherwise refuses us read permission. Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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