Commit 4a13b10e authored by Seth Forshee's avatar Seth Forshee

fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems

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.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
parent 46434eee
......@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ 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. */
......@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ 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 */
......
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