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btrfs: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for filesystem rebalance

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Filesystem rebalancing (BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE) affects the entire
filesystem and may run uninterruptibly for a long time.  This does not
seem to be something that an unprivileged user should be able to do.

Reported-by: Aron Xu <happyaron.xu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Ben Hutchings 2010-12-29 14:55:03 +00:00 committed by Chris Mason
parent f690efb1aa
commit 6f88a4403d
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fs/btrfs/volumes.c
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@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/iocontext.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
#include "compat.h"
#include "ctree.h"
@ -2024,6 +2025,9 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_root *dev_root)
if (dev_root->fs_info->sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
return -EROFS;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
mutex_lock(&dev_root->fs_info->volume_mutex);
dev_root = dev_root->fs_info->dev_root;