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Iulia Manda 2813893f8b kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities
There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root.  For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.

This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional.  It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.

When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.

The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.

Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.

In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.

This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build.  The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB.  (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.

The kernel was booted in Qemu.  All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.

Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
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bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-04-15 09:00:47 -07:00
configs
debug
events Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-04-15 09:00:47 -07:00
gcov
irq irqchip core change for v4.1 (round 3) 2015-04-11 11:17:28 +02:00
livepatch Merge branch 'for-4.1/core-noarch' into for-linus 2015-04-13 23:57:20 +02:00
locking Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-13 10:27:28 -07:00
power Merge back earlier suspend/hibernate material for v4.1. 2015-04-10 12:01:59 +02:00
printk Merge branch 'iocb' into for-next 2015-04-11 22:24:41 -04:00
rcu Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', 'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD 2015-03-20 08:31:01 -07:00
sched Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-14 13:58:48 -07:00
time timers/PM: Drop unnecessary braces from tick_freeze() 2015-04-03 15:15:52 +02:00
trace Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-14 14:37:47 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit.c
audit.h
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
cgroup.c memcg: zap mem_cgroup_lookup() 2015-04-15 16:35:16 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Export context_tracking_user_enter/exit 2015-03-09 15:43:00 +01:00
cpu.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-04-14 13:36:04 -07:00
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c kernel, cpuset: remove exception for __GFP_THISNODE 2015-04-14 16:49:03 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c
extable.c
fork.c
freezer.c
futex.c
futex_compat.c
groups.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition 2015-04-14 10:49:03 -07:00
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c
params.c
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
seccomp.c
signal.c
smp.c
smpboot.c smpboot: Add common code for notification from dying CPU 2015-03-11 13:20:25 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
sys_ni.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
sysctl.c mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages 2015-04-15 16:35:17 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-04-14 16:49:17 -07:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Reorder sysfs code 2015-04-06 11:16:04 -04:00
workqueue_internal.h