On Fri, 11 May 2018 13:39:56 +0100 Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote:
> Users have reported a regression due to ip now dropping capabilities > unconditionally. > zerotier-one VPN and VirtualBox use ambient capabilities in their > binary and then fork out to ip to set routes and links, and this > does not work anymore. > > As a workaround, do not drop caps if CAP_NET_ADMIN (the most common > capability used by ip) is set with the INHERITABLE flag. > Users that want ip vrf exec to work do not need to set INHERITABLE, > which will then only set when the calling program had privileges to > give itself the ambient capability. > > Fixes: ba2fc55b99f8 ("Drop capabilities if not running ip exec vrf with > libcap") > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> Applied