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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
akeromi · Aug 27, 2010 · a2f13ad · a2f13ad
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diff --git 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;