From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:18:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070718171834.GA28855@vino.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717153510.GA8464@vino.hallyn.com>
Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serge@hallyn.com):
> Quoting Satyam Sharma (ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in):
> > From: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
> >
> > [PATCH] Introduce is_owner_or_cap() to wrap CAP_FOWNER use with fsuid check
> >
> > Introduce is_owner_or_cap() macro in fs.h, and convert over relevant
> > users to it. This is done because we want to avoid bugs in the future
>
> I like the idea - it will make future user namespace/per-container
> capability patches much cleaner by localizing a lot of the changes.
>
> (haven't tested the patch yet, but it looks trivial enough, and I will
> test later today)
tested fine for me.
thanks,
-serge
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 9:30 Satyam Sharma
2007-07-17 15:35 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-07-18 17:18 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
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