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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-08 12:02:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-08 12:02:55 -0700
commit1e5de2837c166535f9bb4232bfe97ea1f9fc7a1c (patch)
tree333a9686bbebefd85e1854f1b234a0fc0f75d77b /fs/utimes.c
parent4e99325b462ba18075768582621af74a6b79d2a5 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/utimes.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/utimes.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index 480f7c8c29d..b3c88952465 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);