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authorTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>2008-10-30 18:30:09 +1100
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-10-30 18:30:09 +1100
commitf3f0d7b026ae34d6ed5ae67cd4dd5909f9cd70a5 (patch)
treed4c58e8c90b171ac6c494ddd48cfe0eb3cf3da8c
parentea5a3dc8356bf1cf27bab9a5a0da5dfbbb82013d (diff)
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[XFS] remove restricted chown parameter from xfs linux
On Linux all filesystems are supposed to be operating under Posix' restricted chown. Restricted chown means it restricts chown to the owner unless you have CAP_FOWNER. NOTE: that 2 files outside of fs/xfs have been modified too for this change. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> SGI-PV: 988919 SGI-Modid: 2.6.x-xfs-melb:linux:32413b Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt4
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl_check.c1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 0a1668ba2600..9878f50d6ed6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -229,10 +229,6 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
ISGID bit is cleared if the irix_sgid_inherit compatibility sysctl
is set.
- fs.xfs.restrict_chown (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1)
- Controls whether unprivileged users can use chown to "give away"
- a file to another user.
-
fs.xfs.inherit_sync (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1)
Setting this to "1" will cause the "sync" flag set
by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
index c35da23ab8fb..fafeb48f27c0 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
@@ -730,7 +730,6 @@ static const struct trans_ctl_table trans_fs_quota_table[] = {
};
static const struct trans_ctl_table trans_fs_xfs_table[] = {
- { XFS_RESTRICT_CHOWN, "restrict_chown" },
{ XFS_SGID_INHERIT, "irix_sgid_inherit" },
{ XFS_SYMLINK_MODE, "irix_symlink_mode" },
{ XFS_PANIC_MASK, "panic_mask" },