chown-recursive: also drop ACLs when recursively chown()ing

Let's better be safe than sorry and also drop ACLs.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/chown-recursive.c b/src/core/chown-recursive.c
index 27c64489b5..447b771267 100644
--- a/src/core/chown-recursive.c
+++ b/src/core/chown-recursive.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/xattr.h>
 
 #include "chown-recursive.h"
 #include "dirent-util.h"
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
 
 static int chown_one(int fd, const struct stat *st, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
         char procfs_path[STRLEN("/proc/self/fd/") + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(int) + 1];
+        const char *n;
 
         assert(fd >= 0);
         assert(st);
@@ -26,13 +28,19 @@ static int chown_one(int fd, const struct stat *st, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
          * O_PATH. (Note: fchown() and fchmod() do not work with O_PATH, the kernel refuses that. */
         xsprintf(procfs_path, "/proc/self/fd/%i", fd);
 
+        /* Drop any ACL if there is one */
+        FOREACH_STRING(n, "system.posix_acl_access", "system.posix_acl_default")
+                if (removexattr(procfs_path, n) < 0)
+                        if (!IN_SET(errno, ENODATA, EOPNOTSUPP, ENOSYS, ENOTTY))
+                                return -errno;
+
         if (chown(procfs_path, uid, gid) < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
-        /* The linux kernel alters the mode in some cases of chown(). Let's undo this. We do this only for non-symlinks
-         * however. That's because for symlinks the access mode is ignored anyway and because on some kernels/file
-         * systems trying to change the access mode will succeed but has no effect while on others it actively
-         * fails. */
+        /* The linux kernel alters the mode in some cases of chown(), as well when we change ACLs. Let's undo this. We
+         * do this only for non-symlinks however. That's because for symlinks the access mode is ignored anyway and
+         * because on some kernels/file systems trying to change the access mode will succeed but has no effect while
+         * on others it actively fails. */
         if (!S_ISLNK(st->st_mode))
                 if (chmod(procfs_path, st->st_mode & 07777) < 0)
                         return -errno;