Quoting Willy Tarreau (w@xxxxxx): > Hello, > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:39:54PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux > > cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having > > fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and > > CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege > > to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0. > > > > This patch introduces those capabilities into the fsmask, > > restoring the old behavior. > > > > See the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/157 for > > reference. > > Thanks to Igor and you for fixing this. The impact did not appear > obvious to me at first, to be honnest! I'm queuing the patch for > next release. > > BTW, I've noticed your other patch for 2.2.26, but it's not worth > wasting time on it, as 2.2 has remained unmaintained for years now > and people are really discouraged from using it as many holes have > never been fixed there. > > Cheers, > Willy Sounds good to me. thanks, -serge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
