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Al Viro
f9652e10c1 allow build_open_flags() to return an error
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:09 +04:00
Al Viro
2cf0966683 make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
... and switch i386 to HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS, killing open-coded
uses of asmlinkage_protect() in a bunch of syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-03 22:58:33 -05:00
Al Viro
4a0fd5bf0f teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
... and convert a bunch of SYSCALL_DEFINE ones to SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>,
killing the boilerplate crap around them.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
56a79b7b02 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull  more VFS bits from Al Viro:
 "Unfortunately, it looks like xattr series will have to wait until the
  next cycle ;-/

  This pile contains 9p cleanups and fixes (races in v9fs_fid_add()
  etc), fixup for nommu breakage in shmem.c, several cleanups and a bit
  more file_inode() work"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  constify path_get/path_put and fs_struct.c stuff
  fix nommu breakage in shmem.c
  cache the value of file_inode() in struct file
  9p: if v9fs_fid_lookup() gets to asking server, it'd better have hashed dentry
  9p: make sure ->lookup() adds fid to the right dentry
  9p: untangle ->lookup() a bit
  9p: double iput() in ->lookup() if d_materialise_unique() fails
  9p: v9fs_fid_add() can't fail now
  v9fs: get rid of v9fs_dentry
  9p: turn fid->dlist into hlist
  9p: don't bother with private lock in ->d_fsdata; dentry->d_lock will do just fine
  more file_inode() open-coded instances
  selinux: opened file can't have NULL or negative ->f_path.dentry

(In the meantime, the hlist traversal macros have changed, so this
required a semantic conflict fixup for the newly hlistified fid->dlist)
2013-03-03 13:23:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
14cc0b55b7 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal/compat fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixes for several regressions introduced in the last signal.git pile,
  along with fixing bugs in truncate and ftruncate compat (on just about
  anything biarch at least one of those two had been done wrong)."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls
  [regression] braino in "sparc: convert to ksignal"
  fix compat truncate/ftruncate
  switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  lseek() and truncate() on sparc really need sign extension
2013-03-02 08:34:06 -08:00
Al Viro
dd37978c50 cache the value of file_inode() in struct file
Note that this thing does *not* contribute to inode refcount;
it's pinned down by dentry.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-01 19:48:30 -05:00
Al Viro
21d206819a get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26 02:46:11 -05:00
Al Viro
3f6d078d4a fix compat truncate/ftruncate
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-25 09:24:55 -05:00
Al Viro
1afc99beaf propagate error from get_empty_filp() to its callers
Based on parts from Anatol's patch (the rest is the next commit).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:32 -05:00
Al Viro
496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Jeff Layton
99a5df37a0 vfs: make fchownat retry once on ESTALE errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:07 -05:00
Jeff Layton
14ff690c0f vfs: make fchmodat retry once on ESTALE errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:07 -05:00
Jeff Layton
2771261ec5 vfs: have chroot retry once on ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:06 -05:00
Jeff Layton
0291c0a551 vfs: have chdir retry lookup and call once on ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:06 -05:00
Jeff Layton
87fa55952b vfs: have faccessat retry once on an ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:05 -05:00
Jeff Layton
48f7530d3f vfs: have do_sys_truncate retry once on an ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:50:05 -05:00
David Howells
a02de96085 VFS: Make more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles
Make a more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles (including
security checks and suchlike) so that it can use this to clear invalidated
cache files.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 22:05:41 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman
a85fb273c9 vfs: Allow chroot if you have CAP_SYS_CHROOT in your user namespace
Once you are confined to a user namespace applications can not gain
privilege and escape the user namespace so there is no longer a reason
to restrict chroot.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-11-19 05:59:17 -08:00
Jeff Layton
669abf4e55 vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
...and fix up the callers. For do_file_open_root, just declare a
struct filename on the stack and fill out the .name field. For
do_filp_open, make it also take a struct filename pointer, and fix up its
callers to call it appropriately.

For filp_open, add a variant that takes a struct filename pointer and turn
filp_open into a wrapper around it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 20:15:09 -04:00
Jeff Layton
91a27b2a75 vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
the string.

For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
need to recopy it from userspace.

This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.

Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
convenient.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
Jeff Layton
bfcec70874 audit: set the name_len in audit_inode for parent lookups
Currently, this gets set mostly by happenstance when we call into
audit_inode_child. While that might be a little more efficient, it seems
wrong. If the syscall ends up failing before audit_inode_child ever gets
called, then you'll have an audit_names record that shows the full path
but has the parent inode info attached.

Fix this by passing in a parent flag when we call audit_inode that gets
set to the value of LOOKUP_PARENT. We can then fix up the pathname for
the audit entry correctly from the get-go.

While we're at it, clean up the no-op macro for audit_inode in the
!CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 00:32:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
aab174f0df Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs update from Al Viro:

 - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
   that is moved to fs/file.c

   (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c.  As it is,
   we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
   file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
   are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
   struct file we used to have way back).

   A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
   disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
   doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore.  A bunch of
   relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
   leak.

 - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
   there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).

 - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
   that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
   switch of fdinfo to seq_file.

 - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
   take that commit than mess with conflicts.  The rest is a separate
   pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.

 - a few misc patches all over the place.  Not all for this cycle,
   there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."

Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
/proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
  MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
  compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
  fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
  btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
  coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
  coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
  usb/gadget: fix misannotations
  fcntl: fix misannotations
  ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
  hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
  vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
  switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
  new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
  switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
  proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
  make get_file() return its argument
  vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
  switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
  switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
  ...
2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
437589a74b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
Al Viro
2903ff019b switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
Al Viro
d6483b7a78 switch fchmod(2) to fget_light()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:03 -04:00
Al Viro
6b48c5b207 switch fallocate(2) to fget_light()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:03 -04:00
Al Viro
bf2965d5b5 switch ftruncate(2) to fget_light
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:02 -04:00
Al Viro
c6f3d81115 don't leak O_CLOEXEC into ->f_flags
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:10:01 -04:00
Al Viro
483ce1d4b8 take descriptor-related part of close() to file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:56 -04:00
Al Viro
56007cae94 move put_unused_fd() and fd_install() to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26 21:08:55 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
d2b31ca644 userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
Don't make the security modules deal with raw user space uid and
gids instead pass in a kuid_t and a kgid_t so that security modules
only have to deal with internal kernel uids and gids.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-21 03:13:25 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
e68726ff72 vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags()
Userspace can pass weird create mode in open(2) that we canonicalize to 
"(mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG" in vfs_create().

The problem is that we use the uncanonicalized mode before calling vfs_create()
with unforseen consequences.

So do the canonicalization early in build_open_flags().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-08-15 13:01:24 +02:00
Al Viro
fe7c80518e missed mnt_drop_write() in do_dentry_open()
This one ought to be __mnt_drop_write(), to match __mnt_want_write()
in the beginning...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-08-04 12:15:41 +04:00
Jan Kara
14da920014 fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
There are several entry points which dirty pages in a filesystem.  mmap
(handled by block_page_mkwrite()), buffered write (handled by
__generic_file_aio_write()), splice write (generic_file_splice_write),
truncate, and fallocate (these can dirty last partial page - handled inside
each filesystem separately). Protect these places with sb_start_write() and
sb_end_write().

->page_mkwrite() calls are particularly complex since they are called with
mmap_sem held and thus we cannot use standard sb_start_write() due to lock
ordering constraints. We solve the problem by using a special freeze protection
sb_start_pagefault() which ranks below mmap_sem.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-31 09:45:47 +04:00
Jan Kara
eb04c28288 fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
Most of places where we want freeze protection coincides with the places where
we also have remount-ro protection. So make mnt_want_write() and
mnt_drop_write() (and their _file alternative) prevent freezing as well.
For the few cases that are really interested only in remount-ro protection
provide new function variants.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-31 09:40:38 +04:00
Al Viro
b5bcdda327 take grabbing f->f_path to do_dentry_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-29 21:24:18 +04:00
Al Viro
765927b2d5 switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-23 00:01:29 +04:00
David Howells
55e4def0a6 VFS: Make chown() and lchown() call fchownat()
Make the chown() and lchown() syscalls jump to the fchownat() syscall with the
appropriate extra arguments.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:54 +04:00
Al Viro
c3c4f69424 do_dentry_open(): close the race with mark_files_ro() in failure exit
we want to take it out of mark_files_ro() reach *before* we start
checking if we ought to drop write access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:50 +04:00
Al Viro
02e5180d99 do_dentry_open(): take initialization of file->f_path to caller
... and get rid of a couple of arguments and a pointless reassignment
in finish_open() case.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:54 +04:00
Al Viro
2a027e7a18 fold __dentry_open() into its sole caller
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:52 +04:00
Al Viro
96b7e579ad switch do_dentry_open() to returning int
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:49 +04:00
Al Viro
e45198a6ac make finish_no_open() return int
namely, 1 ;-)  That's what we want to return from ->atomic_open()
instances after finish_no_open().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:45 +04:00
Al Viro
30d9049474 kill struct opendata
Just pass struct file *.  Methods are happier that way...
There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
so let it return int.  Next: saner prototypes for parts in
namei.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:39 +04:00
Al Viro
a4a3bdd778 kill opendata->{mnt,dentry}
->filp->f_path is there for purpose...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:37 +04:00
Al Viro
3d8a00d209 don't modify od->filp at all
make put_filp() conditional on flag set by finish_open()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:33 +04:00
Al Viro
47237687d7 ->atomic_open() prototype change - pass int * instead of bool *
... and let finish_open() report having opened the file via that sucker.
Next step: don't modify od->filp at all.

[AV: FILE_CREATE was already used by cifs; Miklos' fix folded]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:31 +04:00
Miklos Szeredi
015c3bbcd8 vfs: remove open intents from nameidata
All users of open intents have been converted to use ->atomic_{open,create}.

This patch gets rid of nd->intent.open and related infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:18 +04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d18e9008c3 vfs: add i_op->atomic_open()
Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
atomic operation.  If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
pointer.

i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
lookup.  Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
can be opened using f_op->open().  If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.

For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
place.  This will be removed once all the users are converted.

David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:33:04 +04:00
Linus Torvalds
332a2e1244 vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fchdir()'
We already use them for openat() and friends, but fchdir() also wants to
be able to use O_PATH file descriptors.  This should make it comparable
to the O_SEARCH of Solaris.  In particular, O_PATH allows you to access
(not-quite-open) a directory you don't have read persmission to, only
execute permission.

Noticed during development of multithread support for ksh93.

Reported-by: ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org    # O_PATH introduced in 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-07 17:19:02 -07:00