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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 x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel 2014-08-08 16:30:24 -07:00
debug debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception. 2015-02-19 12:39:03 -06:00
events Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2015-04-15 09:00:47 -07:00
gcov kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile more 2015-01-09 17:25:44 +01:00
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 new fs_pin killing logics 2015-01-25 23:17:28 -05:00
async.c kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo() 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
audit.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-12-30 10:45:47 -08:00
audit.h audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference counters 2015-01-23 00:23:58 -05:00
audit_tree.c fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling 2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
audit_watch.c audit: invalid op= values for rules 2014-09-23 16:37:53 -04:00
auditfilter.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2015-02-11 20:07:47 -08:00
auditsc.c Merge branch 'getname2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-02-17 15:27:47 -08:00
backtracetest.c kernel/backtracetest.c: replace no level printk by pr_info() 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
bounds.c page-cgroup: get rid of NR_PCG_FLAGS 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
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 cgroup: rename cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes to ->legacy_cftypes 2014-07-15 11:05:09 -04:00
compat.c all arches, signal: move restart_block to struct task_struct 2015-02-12 18:54:12 -08:00
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 crash_dump: Make is_kdump_kernel() accessible from modules 2014-08-25 15:42:19 -07:00
cred.c kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities 2015-04-15 16:35:22 -07:00
delayacct.c delayacct: Remove braindamaged type conversions 2014-07-23 10:18:06 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c kernel/exec_domain.c: code clean-up 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
exit.c oom, PM: make OOM detection in the freezer path raceless 2015-02-11 17:06:03 -08:00
extable.c ftrace/x86/extable: Add is_ftrace_trampoline() function 2014-11-19 15:25:26 -05:00
fork.c mm: do not use mm->nr_pmds on !MMU configurations 2015-02-12 18:54:10 -08:00
freezer.c freezer: remove obsolete comments in __thaw_task() 2014-10-21 23:44:20 +02:00
futex.c Linux 34.0-rc1 2015-02-24 08:41:07 +01:00
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 kernel/hung_task.c: convert simple_strtoul to kstrtouint 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
irq_work.c percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX 2014-10-29 11:18:18 -04:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: use __seq_open_private() 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
kcmp.c kcmp: fix standard comparison bug 2014-09-10 15:42:12 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/mcs: Better differentiate between MCS variants 2015-01-14 15:07:32 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: simplify conditional 2015-02-17 14:34:51 -08:00
kmod.c usermodehelper: kill the kmod_thread_locker logic 2014-12-10 17:41:17 -08:00
kprobes.c kprobes: makes kprobes/enabled works correctly for optimized kprobes. 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c: partial revert of 81c98869fa ("kthread: ensure locality of task_struct allocations") 2014-10-09 22:25:51 -04:00
latencytop.c kernel/latencytop.c: convert seq_printf to seq_puts 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
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 rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU 2015-01-06 11:04:29 -08:00
nsproxy.c bury struct proc_ns in fs/proc 2014-12-04 14:34:54 -05:00
padata.c padata: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:38 -08:00
panic.c livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH 2014-12-22 15:40:48 +01:00
params.c param: fix uninitialized read with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC 2015-01-20 11:38:31 +10:30
pid.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
pid_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
profile.c profile: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:38 -08:00
ptrace.c ptrace: remove linux/compat.h inclusion under CONFIG_COMPAT 2015-02-17 14:34:51 -08:00
range.c kernel: avoid overflow in cmp_range 2015-01-17 10:02:23 +13:00
reboot.c kernel: add support for kernel restart handler call chain 2014-09-26 00:00:06 -07:00
relay.c
resource.c resources: Move struct resource_list_entry from ACPI into resource core 2015-02-05 15:09:25 +01:00
seccomp.c seccomp: cap SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO data to MAX_ERRNO 2015-02-17 14:34:55 -08:00
signal.c signal: use current->state helpers 2015-02-17 14:34:51 -08:00
smp.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
smpboot.c smpboot: Add common code for notification from dying CPU 2015-03-11 13:20:25 -07:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-09 15:24:03 -08:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace: introduce snprint_stack_trace for buffer output 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -08:00
stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: kernel-doc warning fix 2014-06-04 16:54:15 -07:00
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 kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c KEYS: validate certificate trust only with builtin keys 2014-07-17 09:35:17 -04:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c torture: Address race in module cleanup 2014-09-16 13:41:06 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads 2014-06-21 00:15:26 -04:00
tsacct.c sched: Make task->start_time nanoseconds based 2014-07-23 10:18:05 -07:00
uid16.c groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks 2014-12-05 17:19:27 -06:00
up.c
user-return-notifier.c scheduler: Replace __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr 2014-08-26 13:45:45 -04:00
user.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2014-12-17 12:31:40 -08:00
user_namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2014-12-17 12:31:40 -08:00
utsname.c copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common 2014-12-04 14:34:47 -05:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
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