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Eric Caruso committed 2895a5e5b3a
timerfd: Reject ALARM timerfds without CAP_WAKE_ALARM timerfd gives processes a way to set wake alarms, but unlike timers made using timer_create, timerfds don't check whether the process has CAP_WAKE_ALARM before setting alarm-time timers. CAP_WAKE_ALARM is supposed to gate this behavior and so it makes sense that we should deny permission to create such timerfds if the process doesn't have this capability. Signed-off-by: Eric Caruso <ejcaruso@google.com> Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465427339-96209-1-git-send-email-ejcaruso@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>