Re: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] reiser4: replace uid==0 check with capability

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > From c257cb67ce00c8769730cfa92379a53009d99b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: serue@us.ibm.com <serue@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:02:45 -0800
> Subject: [RFC] [PATCH -mm] reiser4: replace uid==0 check with capability
>
> Reiser4 gives root some reserved blocks.  Replace the uid==0 check, which
> is not safe in the face of user namespaces, with a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE check,
> which seems appropriate.
>
>  

Agreed. Thanks,
Edward.

> The per-uid and per-guid reservations appear unimplemented so I'm ignoring
> them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> fs/reiser4/super.c |    2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/reiser4/super.c b/fs/reiser4/super.c
> index bc4113e..50e3d09 100644
> --- a/fs/reiser4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/reiser4/super.c
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ long reiser4_reserved_blocks(const struct super_block *super	/* super block
> 		reserved += reserved_for_gid(super, gid);
> 	if (REISER4_SUPPORT_UID_SPACE_RESERVATION)
> 		reserved += reserved_for_uid(super, uid);
> -	if (REISER4_SUPPORT_ROOT_SPACE_RESERVATION && (uid == 0))
> +	if (REISER4_SUPPORT_ROOT_SPACE_RESERVATION && capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
> 		reserved += reserved_for_root(super);
> 	return reserved;
> }
>  

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