file capabilities: remove cap_task_kill()

The original justification for cap_task_kill() was as follows:

	check_kill_permission() does appropriate uid equivalence checks.
	However with file capabilities it becomes possible for an
	unprivileged user to execute a file with file capabilities
	resulting in a more privileged task with the same uid.

However now that cap_task_kill() always returns 0 (permission
granted) when p->uid==current->uid, the whole hook is worthless,
and only likely to create more subtle problems in the corner cases
where it might still be called but return -EPERM.  Those cases
are basically when uids are different but euid/suid is equivalent
as per the check in check_kill_permission().

One example of a still-broken application is 'at' for non-root users.

This patch removes cap_task_kill().

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <[email protected]>
Earlier-version-tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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