[PATCH 3.8 076/116] xfs: ioctl check for capabilities in the current user namespace

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 18:51 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> The fs,userns: Chage inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid is
> appropriate for 3.8.  I think that one is applicable all of the way
> back to 3.4
> 
> I don't know if xfs in 3.8 called inode_capable in xfs and if it didn't
> you can remove that hunk.

Okay, yup, that's what was done in the 3.10-stable port which I should
have found and used in the first place.

So I have now queued that (fs,userns: Change inode_capable to
capable_wrt_inode_uidgid) up again for 3.8-stable.

Thanks very much, Eric.  I appreciate you not letting this one slip past
me!

 -Kamal


>   To keep things very simple you could just
> skip the rename of inode_capable to capable_wrt_uidgid and just
> include the one line change to add kgid_has_mapping.
> 
> But that bug fix is very much applicable to older kernels.
> 
> Eric
>