From 1e5de2837c166535f9bb4232bfe97ea1f9fc7a1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:02:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix permission checking for the new utimensat() system call
Commit 1c710c896eb461895d3c399e15bb5f20b39c9073 added the utimensat()
system call, but didn't handle the case of checking for the writability
of the target right, when the target was a file descriptor, not a
filename.
We cannot use vfs_permission(MAY_WRITE) for that case, and need to
simply check whether the file descriptor is writable. The oops from
using the wrong function was noticed and narrowed down by Markus
Trippelsdorf.
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/utimes.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index 480f7c8c29da1..b3c88952465fa 100644
--- a/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -106,9 +106,16 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
goto dput_and_out;
- if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid &&
- (error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_WRITE)) != 0)
- goto dput_and_out;
+ if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) {
+ if (f) {
+ if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
+ goto dput_and_out;
+ } else {
+ error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_WRITE);
+ if (error)
+ goto dput_and_out;
+ }
+ }
}
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
--
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