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

David Howells
2009-01-05T15:57:26Z

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