ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has_cap()
Commit 69f594a3 ("ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat") introduced the ability to opt out of audit messages for accesses to various proc files since they are not violations of policy. While doing so it somehow switched the check from ns_capable() to has_ns_capability{_noaudit}(). That means it switched from checking the subjective credentials of the task to using the objective credentials. This is wrong since. ptrace_has_cap() is currently only used in ptrace_may_access() And is used to check whether the calling task (subject) has the CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability in the provided user namespace to operate on the target task (object). According to the cred.h comments this would mean the subjective credentials of the calling task need to be used. This switches ptrace_has_cap() to use security_capable(). Because we only call ptrace_has_cap() in ptrace_may_access() and in there we already have a stable ref...
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