linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys

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Message-ID: <23397.1231171023@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:03 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	jmorris@...ei.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2]

J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:

> ... and I haven't figured out what's in between.  And the test failure
> is nfsd_lookup() returning OK on a directory when it should return
> nfserr_perm.  I assume that's the result of inode_permission(directory
> inode, MAY_EXEC) returning 0 when it shouldn't, but I haven't confirmed
> that.

I appear to have reproduced this on my test machine.  I'll have a poke around.

David
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