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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2]
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:03 +0000
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J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> ... and I haven't figured out what's in between.  And the test failure
> is nfsd_lookup() returning OK on a directory when it should return
> nfserr_perm.  I assume that's the result of inode_permission(directory
> inode, MAY_EXEC) returning 0 when it shouldn't, but I haven't confirmed
> that.

I appear to have reproduced this on my test machine.  I'll have a poke around.

David