From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:58:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged
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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 <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <paris@paris.rdu.redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index b966b7230f47..5ed8e58d7bfc 100644
--- 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;