[PATCH] utime(s): Honour CAP_FOWNER when times==NULL

[Satyam Sharma]

do_utimes() does not honour CAP_FOWNER when times==NULL.
Trivial and obvious one-line fix.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index b3c8895..83a7e69 100644
--- a/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct
timespec *times, int flags
                 if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
                         goto dput_and_out;
 
-		if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) {
+		if ((current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) && !capable(CAP_FOWNER)) {
 			if (f) {
 				if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
 					goto dput_and_out;


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