[118/143] btrfs: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for filesystem rebalance

[Greg KH]

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6f88a4403def422bd8e276ddf6863d6ac71435d2 upstream.

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #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"
@@ -1900,6 +1901,9 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_root *dev
 	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;
 


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