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Kees Cook committed cc658db47d6
fs: Reorder inode_owner_or_capable() to avoid needless Checking for capabilities should be the last operation when performing access control tests so that PF_SUPERPRIV is set only when it was required for success (implying that the capability was needed for the operation). Reported-by: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>