Proposed patch (was bug with reiserfs and patch-2.6.8-rc4-vs1.9.2.17.diff)

Hi,

Maybe I found a solution.

This could be just some bogus logic in capabilities verification, see 
the patch below.

Regards.


> --- linux-2.6.8-rc4-vs1.9.2.17.orig/fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c 2004-08-13 
> 15:52:02.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.8-rc4-vs1.9.2.17/fs/reiserfs/ioctl.c      2004-08-13 
> 15:58:36.000000000 +0200
> @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
>                         return -EFAULT;
>  
>  		oldflags = REISERFS_I(inode) -> i_attrs;
> -               if ( (oldflags & REISERFS_IMMUTABLE_FL) || ( ( (flags ^ oldflags) 
> &
> -                  (REISERFS_IMMUTABLE_FL | REISERFS_IUNLINK_FL | REISERFS_APPEND_FL)) 
> &&
> -                    !capable( CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE ) ) )
> +               if ( ( (oldflags & REISERFS_IMMUTABLE_FL) || ( (flags ^ oldflags) 
> &
> +                  (REISERFS_IMMUTABLE_FL | REISERFS_IUNLINK_FL | REISERFS_APPEND_FL) ) 
> ) &&
> +                    !capable( CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE )  )
>                         return -EPERM;
>                         
>                 if( ( flags & REISERFS_NOTAIL_FL ) &&

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