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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2010-08-24 12:58:54 +0200
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-08-27 19:59:42 -0400
commita2f13ad0ba5d94b9768c28469b45ca1e81a2b895 (patch)
tree3c9bd63cb165bbb4427399b3e87deb74911cd97d /fs/notify
parent0fb85621df4f9f7c663c6c77c302e821a832c95e (diff)
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fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged
The appropriate error code when privileged operations are denied is EPERM, not EACCES. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <paris@paris.rdu.redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index b966b7230f47..5ed8e58d7bfc 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
__func__, flags, event_f_flags);
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EACCES;
+ return -EPERM;
if (flags & ~FAN_ALL_INIT_FLAGS)
return -EINVAL;