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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include <linux/capability.h>
+#include "cap_helpers.h"
+
+/* Avoid including <sys/capability.h> from the libcap-devel package,
+ * so directly declare them here and use them from glibc.
+ */
+int capget(cap_user_header_t header, cap_user_data_t data);
+int capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data);
+
+int cap_enable_effective(__u64 caps, __u64 *old_caps)
+{
+ struct __user_cap_data_struct data[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3];
+ struct __user_cap_header_struct hdr = {
+ .version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3,
+ };
+ __u32 cap0 = caps;
+ __u32 cap1 = caps >> 32;
+ int err;
+
+ err = capget(&hdr, data);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ if (old_caps)
+ *old_caps = (__u64)(data[1].effective) << 32 | data[0].effective;
+
+ if ((data[0].effective & cap0) == cap0 &&
+ (data[1].effective & cap1) == cap1)
+ return 0;
+
+ data[0].effective |= cap0;
+ data[1].effective |= cap1;
+ err = capset(&hdr, data);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int cap_disable_effective(__u64 caps, __u64 *old_caps)
+{
+ struct __user_cap_data_struct data[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3];
+ struct __user_cap_header_struct hdr = {
+ .version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3,
+ };
+ __u32 cap0 = caps;
+ __u32 cap1 = caps >> 32;
+ int err;
+
+ err = capget(&hdr, data);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ if (old_caps)
+ *old_caps = (__u64)(data[1].effective) << 32 | data[0].effective;
+
+ if (!(data[0].effective & cap0) && !(data[1].effective & cap1))
+ return 0;
+
+ data[0].effective &= ~cap0;
+ data[1].effective &= ~cap1;
+ err = capset(&hdr, data);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ return 0;
+}
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __CAP_HELPERS_H
+#define __CAP_HELPERS_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+int cap_enable_effective(__u64 caps, __u64 *old_caps);
+int cap_disable_effective(__u64 caps, __u64 *old_caps);
+
+#endif
After upgrading to the newer libcap (>= 2.60), the libcap commit aca076443591 ("Make cap_t operations thread safe.") added a "__u8 mutex;" to the "struct _cap_struct". It caused a few byte shift that breaks the assumption made in the "struct libcap" definition in test_verifier.c. The bpf selftest usage only needs to enable and disable the effective caps of the running task. It is easier to directly syscall the capget and capset instead. It can also remove the libcap library dependency. The cap_helpers.{c,h} is added. One __u64 is used for all CAP_* bits instead of two __u32. Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cap_helpers.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cap_helpers.h | 10 ++++ 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cap_helpers.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/cap_helpers.h