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  • capability.h
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  • J. Bruce Fields's avatar
    nfsd: nfsd should drop CAP_MKNOD for non-root · 76a67ec6
    J. Bruce Fields authored Mar 16, 2009
    
    
    Since creating a device node is normally an operation requiring special
    privilege, Igor Zhbanov points out that it is surprising (to say the
    least) that a client can, for example, create a device node on a
    filesystem exported with root_squash.
    
    So, make sure CAP_MKNOD is among the capabilities dropped when an nfsd
    thread handles a request from a non-root user.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarIgor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
    76a67ec6
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