[PATCH] CAP_SYS_RAWIO for ide-proc.c

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Without this patch latest changes in ide.c adding CAP_SYS_RAWIO checks are
useless on machines with /proc turned on...

--- linux-2.4.0-test5/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c Tue Jun 13 20:32:00 2000
+++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c Sat Jul 29 01:22:24 2000
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
         unsigned long startn = 0, n, flags;
         const char *start = NULL, *msg = NULL;
 
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
                 return -EACCES;
         /*
          * Skip over leading whitespace
 

[It's also part of cap-rawio-fixes.diff by Matthew Kirkwood (very good
patch but for 2.3.45... 2.4.0 kernel needs reviewing).]

BTW: linux.kernel.org doesn't allow anonymous, so:

--- linux-2.4.0-test2/include/linux/capability.h Fri Jul 28 20:31:53 2000
+++ linux/include/linux/capability.h Sat Jul 29 01:32:45 2000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  * See here for the libcap library ("POSIX draft" compliance):
  *
- * ftp://linux.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/
+ * ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/
  */
 
 #ifndef _LINUX_CAPABILITY_H

Regards

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bkz@linux-ide.org>
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