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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2016-09-16 12:44:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2016-09-16 12:44:20 +0200 |
| commit | f2b20f6ee842313a0d681dbbf7f87b70291a6a3b (patch) | |
| tree | b4bea4c83e1968a4f69592e9a7fc15be81750a8c /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | e71b9dff0634edb127f449e076e883ef24a8c76c (diff) | |
vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)
This fixes a bug where the permission was not properly checked in
overlayfs. The testcase is ltp/utimensat01.
It is also cleaner and safer to do the permission checking in the vfs
helper instead of the caller.
This patch introduces an additional ia_valid flag ATTR_TOUCH (since
touch(1) is the most obvious user of utimes(NULL)) that is passed into
notify_change whenever the conditions for this special permission checking
mode are met.
Reported-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 901e25d495cc..7c391366fb43 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, #define ATTR_KILL_PRIV (1 << 14) #define ATTR_OPEN (1 << 15) /* Truncating from open(O_TRUNC) */ #define ATTR_TIMES_SET (1 << 16) +#define ATTR_TOUCH (1 << 17) /* * Whiteout is represented by a char device. The following constants define the |