Looks good to me
Reviewed by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankh...@nvidia.com>
On 1/13/2017 3:52 AM, James Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Jike Song wrote:
>
>> Before the mdev enhancement type1 iommu used capable() to test the
>> capability of current task; in the course of mdev development a
>> new requirement, testing for another task other than current, was
>> raised. ns_capable() was used for this purpose, however it still
>> tests current, the only difference is, in a specified namespace.
>>
>> Fix it by using has_capability() instead, which tests the cap for
>> specified task in init_user_ns, the same namespace as capable().
>>
>> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Kirti Wankhede <kwankh...@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jike Song <jike.s...@intel.com>
>
>
> Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.mor...@oracle.com>
>
>> ---
>> drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> index 9266271..77373e5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
>> @@ -495,8 +495,7 @@ static int vfio_pin_page_external(struct vfio_dma *dma,
>> unsigned long vaddr,
>> unsigned long *pfn_base, bool do_accounting)
>> {
>> unsigned long limit;
>> - bool lock_cap = ns_capable(task_active_pid_ns(dma->task)->user_ns,
>> - CAP_IPC_LOCK);
>> + bool lock_cap = has_capability(dma->task, CAP_IPC_LOCK);
>> struct mm_struct *mm;
>> int ret;
>> bool rsvd;
>>
>
