The failure of this check only results in a security mitigation being applied, slightly affecting performance of the compiled BPF program. It doesn't result in a failed syscall, an thus auditing a failed LSM permission check for it is unwanted. For example with SELinux, it causes a denial to be reported for confined processes running as root, which tends to be flagged as a problem to be fixed in the policy. Yet dontauditing or allowing CAP_SYS_ADMIN to the domain may not be desirable, as it would allow/silence also other checks - either going against the principle of least privilege or making debugging potentially harder. Fix it by changing it from capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), which instructs the LSMs to not audit the resulting denials. Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369326 Fixes: d4e89d212d40 ("x86/bpf: Call branch history clearing sequence on exit") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek --- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20250806143105.915748-1-omosnace@redhat.com/ Changes in v2: - just silence the audit records instead of switching to bpf_capable() arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c index d4c93d9e73e40..de5083cb1d374 100644 --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c @@ -2701,7 +2701,7 @@ emit_jmp: /* Update cleanup_addr */ ctx->cleanup_addr = proglen; if (bpf_prog_was_classic(bpf_prog) && - !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { + !ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { u8 *ip = image + addrs[i - 1]; if (emit_spectre_bhb_barrier(&prog, ip, bpf_prog)) -- 2.51.0