In its current implementation the check is against CAP_SYS_ADMIN, however this capability is bloated and inapropriate for this use. Indeed the check aims to avoid dedupe against non writable files, falling directly in the use case of CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Belouin <nicolas@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index f0d4b16873e8..43cc7e84e29e 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ int vfs_dedupe_file_range(struct file *file, struct file_dedupe_range *same) u64 len; int i; int ret; - bool is_admin = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN); + bool is_admin = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE); u16 count = same->dest_count; struct file *dst_file; loff_t dst_off; -- 2.14.2
