linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] utime(s): Honour CAP

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:18:55 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@....iitk.ac.in>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] utime(s): Honour CAP_FOWNER when times==NULL

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:24:14AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > [...]
> > Anwyay, so I'm thinking of adding:
> > 
> > struct inode;
> > 
> > int is_not_owner(struct inode *)
> 
>   ^static inline                 ^inode
> 
> of course.

> > {
> > 	return ((current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) && !capable(CAP_FOWNER));
> > }

This is pointless.  If you do not have definition of struct inode
already available, you'll get breakage on access to ->i_uid.
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