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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 863166441bf..432d6bc6fab 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -227,10 +227,10 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
{
+ umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
int retval, submask;
if (mask & MAY_WRITE) {
- umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
/*
* Nobody gets write access to a read-only fs.
@@ -247,6 +247,13 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
}
+ /*
+ * MAY_EXEC on regular files requires special handling: We override
+ * filesystem execute permissions if the mode bits aren't set.
+ */
+ if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(mode) && !(mode & S_IXUGO))
+ return -EACCES;
+
/* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
submask = mask & ~MAY_APPEND;
if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission)