Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 02:20:50 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jim Lieb <jlieb@panasas.com>, tytso@mit.edu, viro@zeniv.linux.org,
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        bfields@redhat.com, jlayton@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] switch_creds:  Syscall to switch creds for file
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:18:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That doesn't look bad but it does need capable(CAP_SETUID) &&
> capable(CAP_SETGID) or possibly something a little more refined.

D'oh

> I don't think we want file descriptor passing to all of a sudden become
> a grant of privilege, beyond what the passed fd can do.

Definitely.  And an extra ) to make it compile wouldn't hurt either...
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