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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
	kravetz@us.ibm.com, raybry@mpdtxmail.amd.com,
	lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	clameter@sgi.com, magnus.damm@gmail.com, pj@sgi.com,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:27:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031212742.3e43c829.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051101031305.12488.1224.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Changes V3->V4:
> - Add Ray's permissions check based on check_kill_permission().
> 
> ...
> +	/*
> +	 * Permissions check like for signals.
> +	 * See check_kill_permission()
> +	 */
> +	if ((current->euid ^ task->suid) && (current->euid ^ task->uid) &&
> +	    (current->uid ^ task->suid) && (current->uid ^ task->uid) &&
> +	    !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> +		err = -EPERM;
> +		goto out;
> +	}

Obscure.  Can you please explain the thinking behind putting this check in
here?  Preferably via a comment...

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-01  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-01  3:12 [PATCH 0/5] Swap Migration V5: Overview Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  3:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] Swap Migration V5: LRU operations Christoph Lameter
2005-11-07  7:35   ` Magnus Damm
2005-11-07 17:41     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-07 18:12       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-15  5:44   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 16:38     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-15 16:43       ` SKB tutorial, Blog, and NET TODO Surya Satyavolu
2005-11-15 18:02       ` [PATCH 1/5] Swap Migration V5: LRU operations Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 18:22         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-15 18:46           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-31  7:32             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-15 18:08       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2005-11-01  3:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  3:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] Swap Migration V5: migrate_pages() function Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  8:06   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01  8:59     ` Dave Hansen
2005-11-01  3:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] Swap Migration V5: MPOL_MF_MOVE interface Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  3:13 ` [PATCH 5/5] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  5:27   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-01 12:00     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-01 18:10       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01 17:39     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01  3:25 ` [PATCH 0/5] Swap Migration V5: Overview Andrew Morton
2005-11-01  8:08   ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01 17:44     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-02  5:30       ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-11-02  8:31         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-02  8:45           ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-11-02 12:26           ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-11-02 13:08             ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2005-11-02 14:11             ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2005-11-02 15:48             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-02 20:00     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-01 10:22   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2005-11-01 17:19   ` Christoph Lameter

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