From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is FIBMAP ioctl root only?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:54:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122195451.35548d64@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071122181714.GB6299@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:17:14 +0100
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess subject says it all - why is FIBMAP ioctl restricted only to
> root (CAP_SYS_RAWIO)? Corresponding ioctl for XFS is allowed without any
> special capabilities so we are inconsistent here too...
> Would anyone mind if the check is removed?
It would be great if it was but it involves a *lot* of work.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 18:17 Jan Kara
2007-11-22 18:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-11-22 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-23 4:57 ` Theodore Tso
2007-11-22 18:53 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-11-22 18:59 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-11-22 19:54 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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