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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:09:21 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by
 sys_faccessat() [ver #3]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:53:48AM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, David Howells wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Fix a regression in cap_capable() due to:
> > > 
> > > 	commit 3b11a1decef07c19443d24ae926982bc8ec9f4c0
> > > 	Author: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> > > 	Date:   Fri Nov 14 10:39:26 2008 +1100
> > > 
> > > 	    CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
> > > 
> > 
> > Applied to:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next
> 
> Thanks!  When should that be in mainline?

As soon as Linus pulls.

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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