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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-28 13:03:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-28 13:03:41 -0700
commit36947a76826111e661a26cb0f668a5be6cc3ddb4 (patch)
treeed5d92c9d71f9ca68e6a3583a10ebf911c9c44dd /fs/xattr.c
parenta947e23a8ec04bccbfe98c5a2d64cd1f88b612d5 (diff)
parent69b4573296469fd3f70cf7044693074980517067 (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (36 commits) Cache xattr security drop check for write v2 fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fat: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hpfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename minix: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename afs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename affs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename 9p: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename ncpfs: fix rename over directory with dangling references ncpfs: document dentry_unhash usage ecryptfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename hfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename omfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rneame udf: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash from rmdir, dir rename ...
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c23
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index f1ef94974dea..f060663ab70c 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -46,18 +46,22 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
return 0;
/*
- * The trusted.* namespace can only be accessed by a privileged user.
+ * The trusted.* namespace can only be accessed by privileged users.
*/
- if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN))
- return (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? 0 : -EPERM);
+ if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) {
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return (mask & MAY_WRITE) ? -EPERM : -ENODATA;
+ return 0;
+ }
- /* In user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have
+ /*
+ * In the user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have
* extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and
- * privileged user can write attributes.
+ * privileged users can write attributes.
*/
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
- return -EPERM;
+ return (mask & MAY_WRITE) ? -EPERM : -ENODATA;
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX) &&
(mask & MAY_WRITE) && !inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
return -EPERM;
@@ -87,7 +91,11 @@ int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
int error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ int issec = !strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
+ XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN);
+ if (issec)
+ inode->i_flags &= ~S_NOSEC;
if (inode->i_op->setxattr) {
error = inode->i_op->setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
if (!error) {
@@ -95,8 +103,7 @@ int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
security_inode_post_setxattr(dentry, name, value,
size, flags);
}
- } else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
- XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) {
+ } else if (issec) {
const char *suffix = name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN;
error = security_inode_setsecurity(inode, suffix, value,
size, flags);