Filesystem rebalancing (BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE) affects the entire filesystem and may run uninterruptibly for a long time. This does not seem to be something that an unprivileged user should be able to do.
Reported-by: Aron Xu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index cc04dc1..2313e8b 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/random.h> #include <linux/iocontext.h> +#include <linux/capability.h> #include <asm/div64.h> #include "compat.h" #include "ctree.h" @@ -1905,6 +1906,9 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_root *dev_root) if (dev_root->fs_info->sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) return -EROFS; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + mutex_lock(&dev_root->fs_info->volume_mutex); dev_root = dev_root->fs_info->dev_root; -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
