Comment 15 for bug 1897369

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Paul Menzel (paulmenzel) wrote :

> All these are guarded by one check to see if the process is allowed to
> make changes that require CAP_SYS_NICE. This capability check is
> performed regardless of whether the app actually is trying to do
> something that requires CAP_SYS_NICE. (In this case, it's not trying to,
> but the check is made regardless.)

Should that be fixed in the Linux kernel, or at least reported to the developers?