Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:55:53 +0200 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] filesystems: use has_capability_noaudit interface for reserved blocks checks |
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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@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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