fs: don't audit the capability check in simple_xattr_list()
The check being unconditional may lead to unwanted denials reported by LSMs when a process has the capability granted by DAC, but denied by an LSM. In the case of SELinux such denials are a problem, since they can't be effectively filtered out via the policy and when not silenced, they produce noise that may hide a true problem or an attack. Checking for the capability only if any trusted xattr is actually present wouldn't really address the issue, since calling listxattr(2) on such node on its own doesn't indicate an explicit attempt to see the trusted xattrs. Additionally, it could potentially leak the presence of trusted xattrs to an unprivileged user if they can check for the denials (e.g. through dmesg). Therefore, it's best (and simplest) to keep the check unconditional and instead use ns_capable_noaudit() that will silence any associated LSM denials. Fixes: 38f38657 ("xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs") Reported-by: Martin Pitt <mpitt@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
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