Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:53:16 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] filesystems: use has_capability_noaudit interface for reserved blocks checks |
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:12:49 -0500 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> 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@redhat.com> > --- > > I would like to push this patch through the security tree (since that's > the only place the new cap_noaudit interface exists), but I'd like to > get an ACK from each subsystem maintainer.
OK by me.
Whoever added has_capability_noaudit() forgot to document it, so the difference between has_capability_noaudit() and has_capability() eludes this reader.
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