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Commit 0ad30b8f authored by Serge E. Hallyn's avatar Serge E. Hallyn Committed by Linus Torvalds
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add some long-missing capabilities to fs_mask



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.

Note that if this fix is deemed valid, then earlier kernel versions (2.4
and 2.2) ought to be fixed too.

Changelog:
	[Mar 23] Actually delete old CAP_FS_SET definition...
	[Mar 20] Updated against J. Bruce Fields's patch

Reported-by: default avatarIgor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent d3ab02a7
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