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authorErnesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com>2017-07-30 22:43:41 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2017-07-30 22:43:41 -0400
commit397e434176bb62bc6068d2210af1d876c6212a7e (patch)
treee18a92370c34f2a104df589fd73e4e163c51708b /fs
parenta627b0a7c15ee4d2c87a86d5be5c8167382e8d0d (diff)
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ext4: preserve i_mode if __ext4_set_acl() fails
When changing a file's acl mask, __ext4_set_acl() will first set the group bits of i_mode to the value of the mask, and only then set the actual extended attribute representing the new acl. If the second part fails (due to lack of space, for example) and the file had no acl attribute to begin with, the system will from now on assume that the mask permission bits are actual group permission bits, potentially granting access to the wrong users. Prevent this by only changing the inode mode after the acl has been set. Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/acl.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index 09441ae..2985cd0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -189,16 +189,17 @@ __ext4_set_acl(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int type,
void *value = NULL;
size_t size = 0;
int error;
+ int update_mode = 0;
+ umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
switch (type) {
case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
name_index = EXT4_XATTR_INDEX_POSIX_ACL_ACCESS;
if (acl) {
- error = posix_acl_update_mode(inode, &inode->i_mode, &acl);
+ error = posix_acl_update_mode(inode, &mode, &acl);
if (error)
return error;
- inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
- ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+ update_mode = 1;
}
break;
@@ -221,8 +222,14 @@ __ext4_set_acl(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int type,
value, size, xattr_flags);
kfree(value);
- if (!error)
+ if (!error) {
set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);
+ if (update_mode) {
+ inode->i_mode = mode;
+ inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
+ ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+ }
+ }
return error;
}
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