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Commit 76a67ec6 authored by J. Bruce Fields's avatar J. Bruce Fields
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nfsd: nfsd should drop CAP_MKNOD for non-root



Since creating a device node is normally an operation requiring special
privilege, Igor Zhbanov points out that it is surprising (to say the
least) that a client can, for example, create a device node on a
filesystem exported with root_squash.

So, make sure CAP_MKNOD is among the capabilities dropped when an nfsd
thread handles a request from a non-root user.

Reported-by: default avatarIgor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
parent 84f09f46
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