Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fix regression in cap_capable() as shown up by sys_faccessat() [ver #2]

J. Bruce Fields
2009-01-02T05:19:32Z

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:19:12AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>
> > Hm. newpynfs is also giving me failures having to do with the v4
> > server's permissions-checking. I'll investigate, but is it possible
> > nfsd also needs a fix?
>
> It's possible. Have you seen whether this patch fixes those failures also?
> nfsd uses this facility also.

No. I started bisecting, and it does appear to be a regression from the
cred patches, but at some point in the middle there it hangs on boot (a
softlockup report blames a spinlock in set_groups).

--b.