* [PATCH] fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged
@ 2010-08-24 10:58 Andreas Gruenbacher
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From: Andreas Gruenbacher @ 2010-08-24 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Paris; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
The appropriate error code when privileged operations are denied is
EPERM, not EACCES.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index c3a5742..4d7f7cb 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
__func__, flags, event_f_flags);
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EACCES;
+ return -EPERM;
if (flags & ~FAN_ALL_INIT_FLAGS)
return -EINVAL;
--
1.7.1
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