Dongsu, On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Dongsu Park <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Seth Forshee <[email protected]> > > Unprivileged users should not be able to mount mtd block devices > when they lack sufficient privileges towards the block device > inode. Update mount_mtd() to validate that the user has the > required access to the inode at the specified path. The check > will be skipped for CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so privileged mounts will > continue working as before.
What is the big picture of this? Can in future an unprivileged user just mount UBIFS? Please note that UBIFS sits on top of a character device and not a block device. -- Thanks, //richard
