[PATCH] fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

The appropriate error code when privileged operations are denied is
EPERM, not EACCES.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index c3a5742..4d7f7cb 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;
-- 
1.7.1
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