Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct

2007-09-20 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOC If we were to simply drop support for one process changing the capabilities of another, would we need this patch? Well, the patch could be less, but there's still the possibility of a kernel service wanting to override the capabilities mask. David -

Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct

2007-09-20 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:11 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Howells wrote: Move the effective capabilities mask from the task struct into the credentials record. Note that the effective capabilities mask in the cred struct shadows