Re: [PATCH] utime(s): Honour CAP_FOWNER when times==NULL

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:24:14AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > [...]
> > Anwyay, so I'm thinking of adding:
> > 
> > struct inode;
> > 
> > int is_not_owner(struct inode *)
> 
>   ^static inline                 ^inode
> 
> of course.
 
> > {
> > 	return ((current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) && !capable(CAP_FOWNER));
> > }

This is pointless.  If you do not have definition of struct inode
already available, you'll get breakage on access to ->i_uid.
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