From 6f88a4403def422bd8e276ddf6863d6ac71435d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:55:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for filesystem rebalance

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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index e8be478178aa..f2d2f4ccc738 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #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"
@@ -2024,6 +2025,9 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_root *dev_root)
 	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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