[PATCH] filesystems: use has_capability_noaudit interface for reserved blocks checks
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind at yandex.ru
Fri Nov 14 02:55:53 EST 2008
Eric Paris wrote:
> ext[2,3,4], ufs, and ubifs all check for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to determine
> if they should allow reserved blocks to be used. A process not having
> this capability is not failing some security decision and should not be
> audited. Thus move to using has_capability_noaudit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>
> ---
UBIFS part looks OK, as long as the whole idea of the patch is right, which
I have not checked, but assume it is.
The only question is are you sure exporting 'cap_capable()' is relevant
to this patch? You do not seem to call it directly.
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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