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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2006-11-02 22:07:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-11-03 12:27:59 -0800
commitf1f2d8713d16a1e198880bbc716eb24fae09c858 (patch)
tree1782ba01540c329481d995e87b80d45047ea4a9c /fs/xattr.c
parent8ce08464d2c749610a52c4d6c7c11080a7eaaef1 (diff)
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[PATCH] Fix user.* xattr permission check for sticky dirs
The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an explanation.) The original check in ext2/ext3 when user.* xattrs were merged was more restrictive than intended, and when the xattr permission checks were moved into the VFS, read access to user.* attributes on sticky directores ended up being denied in addition. Originally-from: Gerard Neil <xyzzy@devferret.org> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 395635100f77..0901bdc2ce24 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -48,14 +48,21 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
return 0;
/*
- * The trusted.* namespace can only accessed by a privilegued user.
+ * The trusted.* namespace can only be accessed by a privileged user.
*/
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN))
return (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? 0 : -EPERM);
+ /* In user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have
+ * extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and
+ * privileged user can write attributes.
+ */
if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
- if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
- (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
+ if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ return -EPERM;
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX) &&
+ (mask & MAY_WRITE) && (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid) &&
+ !capable(CAP_FOWNER))
return -EPERM;
}