From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH] filesystems: use has_capability_noaudit interface for reserved blocks checks Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:07:17 -0500 Message-ID: <20081113230717.GA25117@mit.edu> References: <1226430769.3353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20081113145316.e53858bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Paris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sct@redhat.com, adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, dedekind@infradead.org, ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, dushistov@mail.ru, jmorris@namei.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.org ([69.25.196.31]:33028 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752054AbYKMXHe (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:07:34 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081113145316.e53858bd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:53:16PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:12:49 -0500 > Eric Paris 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 > > --- > > > > 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" - Ted