commit 24f6008564183aa120d07c03d9289519c2fe02af upstream. The cgroup release_agent is called with call_usermodehelper. The function call_usermodehelper starts the release_agent with a full set fo capabilities. Therefore require capabilities when setting the release_agaent. Reported-by: Tabitha Sable <tabitha.c.sable@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tabitha Sable <tabitha.c.sable@gmail.com> Fixes: 81a6a5cdd2c5 ("Task Control Groups: automatic userspace notification of idle cgroups") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.24+ Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [mkoutny: Adjust for pre-fs_context, duplicate mount/remount check, drop log messages.] Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>