From a2f13ad0ba5d94b9768c28469b45ca1e81a2b895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:58:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged The appropriate error code when privileged operations are denied is EPERM, not EACCES. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index b966b7230f47..5ed8e58d7bfc 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; -- 2.20.1