[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowed" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowed

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e11c7f8244e8650aa13c12007be56dfa8cde7520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:25:48 -0700
Subject: netlink: Rename netlink_capable netlink_allowed

[ Upstream commit 5187cd055b6e81fc6526109456f8b20623148d5f ]

netlink_capable is a static internal function in af_netlink.c and we
have better uses for the name netlink_capable.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index bca50b9..5f0e9bd 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ retry:
 	return err;
 }

-static inline int netlink_capable(const struct socket *sock, unsigned int flag)
+static inline int netlink_allowed(const struct socket *sock, unsigned int flag)
 {
 	return (nl_table[sock->sk->sk_protocol].flags & flag) ||
 		ns_capable(sock_net(sock->sk)->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN);
@@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,

 	/* Only superuser is allowed to listen multicasts */
 	if (nladdr->nl_groups) {
-		if (!netlink_capable(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV))
+		if (!netlink_allowed(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV))
 			return -EPERM;
 		err = netlink_realloc_groups(sk);
 		if (err)
@@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ static int netlink_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr,
 		return -EINVAL;

 	/* Only superuser is allowed to send multicasts */
-	if (nladdr->nl_groups && !netlink_capable(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_SEND))
+	if (nladdr->nl_groups && !netlink_allowed(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_SEND))
 		return -EPERM;

 	if (!nlk->portid)
@@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@ static int netlink_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 		break;
 	case NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP:
 	case NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP: {
-		if (!netlink_capable(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV))
+		if (!netlink_allowed(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_RECV))
 			return -EPERM;
 		err = netlink_realloc_groups(sk);
 		if (err)
@@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 		dst_group = ffs(addr->nl_groups);
 		err =  -EPERM;
 		if ((dst_group || dst_portid) &&
-		    !netlink_capable(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_SEND))
+		    !netlink_allowed(sock, NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_SEND))
 			goto out;
 	} else {
 		dst_portid = nlk->dst_portid;
--
1.9.1