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>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 2fb2ca2127ed..8b6c083e68a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -62,9 +62,27 @@ do {							\
 		groups_free(group_info);		\
 } while (0)
 
-extern struct group_info *groups_alloc(int);
 extern struct group_info init_groups;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MULTIUSER
+extern struct group_info *groups_alloc(int);
 extern void groups_free(struct group_info *);
+
+extern int in_group_p(kgid_t);
+extern int in_egroup_p(kgid_t);
+#else
+static inline void groups_free(struct group_info *group_info)
+{
+}
+
+static inline int in_group_p(kgid_t grp)
+{
+        return 1;
+}
+static inline int in_egroup_p(kgid_t grp)
+{
+        return 1;
+}
+#endif
 extern int set_current_groups(struct group_info *);
 extern void set_groups(struct cred *, struct group_info *);
 extern int groups_search(const struct group_info *, kgid_t);
@@ -74,9 +92,6 @@ extern bool may_setgroups(void);
 #define GROUP_AT(gi, i) \
 	((gi)->blocks[(i) / NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK][(i) % NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK])
 
-extern int in_group_p(kgid_t);
-extern int in_egroup_p(kgid_t);
-
 /*
  * The security context of a task
  *