From: Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com> The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.
Cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <don...@kinvolk.io> --- fs/ioctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c index 5ace7efb..8c628a8d 100644 --- a/fs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ioctl.c @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp) { struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; /* If filesystem doesn't support freeze feature, return. */ @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int ioctl_fsthaw(struct file *filp) { struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; /* Thaw */ -- 2.13.6