Re: [PATCH 07/11] fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 07:28:19 EST


On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Dongsu Park <dongsu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
> and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
> ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Why is this required for unprivileged fuse?

Fuse doesn't support freeze, so this seems to make no sense in the
context of this patchset.

Thanks,
Miklos