On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:12 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:21:27PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > 3.8.13.27 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit fd5e2aa8653665ae1cc60f7aca1069abdbcad3f6 upstream.
> >
> > Use inode_capable() to check if SUID|SGID bits should be cleared to match
> > [...]
>
> Why are you backporting this to 3.8? namespace support didn't come
> along until much later, so grabbing one patch out of themiddle of a
> patch series to allow userns support in XFS is likely to cause
> problems because there's no supporting code in XFS it.
>
> Please don't randomly cherry pick userns support patches that change
> permission checks back into kernels that don't have userns support.
Yup, that's why we ask for reviews all right! I've dropped these from
the 3.8-stable queue:
fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid
xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace
Thanks Dave,
-Kamal
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