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Message-ID: <20081113230717.GA25117@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:07:17 -0500 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sct@...hat.com, adilger@....com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, dedekind@...radead.org, ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, dushistov@...l.ru, jmorris@...ei.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] filesystems: use has_capability_noaudit interface for reserved blocks checks On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:53:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:12:49 -0500 > Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.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@...hat.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. For ext4: Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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