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fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
authorZhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:08 +0000 (11:33 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:41:28 +0000 (15:41 +1000)
commit0124b5e3ce330fc0ed5f4c5f443fcc7e2f9d635d
treeff24fa0682cb6269860364ecc2a498ac7fb01ed3
parent91439de88e1ccdd0ce92703e4ff534149a25b024
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM

According to SUSv3:

[EACCES] Permission denied. An attempt was made to access a file in a way
forbidden by its file access permissions.

[EPERM] Operation not permitted. An attempt was made to perform an operation
limited to processes with appropriate privileges or to the owner of a file
or other resource.

So -EPERM should be returned if capability checks fails.

Strictly speaking this is an API change since the error code user sees is

Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang <zhaohongjiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/autofs4/root.c
fs/dlm/config.c
fs/gfs2/sys.c
fs/ncpfs/ioctl.c
fs/proc/base.c
fs/udf/file.c