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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-06-20 18:59:02 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-07-20 01:43:18 -0400
commit1fc0f78ca9f311c6277e2f1b7655bb4d43ceb311 (patch)
tree9c6a5879558b7a189f94eae97ac80268e63fe29b
parent178ea73521d64ba41d7aa5488fb9f549c6d4507d (diff)
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->permission() sanitizing: MAY_NOT_BLOCK
Duplicate the flags argument into mask bitmap. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h1
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index c5af0f37e67d..723a3fe4bc40 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -318,13 +318,16 @@ static inline int exec_permission(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags)
{
int ret;
struct user_namespace *ns = inode_userns(inode);
+ int mask = MAY_EXEC;
+ if (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU)
+ mask |= MAY_NOT_BLOCK;
if (inode->i_op->permission) {
- ret = inode->i_op->permission(inode, MAY_EXEC, flags);
+ ret = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask, flags);
if (likely(!ret))
goto ok;
} else {
- ret = acl_permission_check(inode, MAY_EXEC, flags);
+ ret = acl_permission_check(inode, mask, flags);
if (likely(!ret))
goto ok;
if (ret != -EACCES)
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index d167de365a8d..349b22f434d8 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static int proc_sys_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,unsigned int flags)
if (!table) /* global root - r-xr-xr-x */
error = mask & MAY_WRITE ? -EACCES : 0;
else /* Use the permissions on the sysctl table entry */
- error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask);
+ error = sysctl_perm(head->root, table, mask & ~MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
sysctl_head_finish(head);
return error;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 0c15d5e459d5..60c1fe65bb2d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define MAY_ACCESS 16
#define MAY_OPEN 32
#define MAY_CHDIR 64
+#define MAY_NOT_BLOCK 128 /* called from RCU mode, don't block */
/*
* flags in file.f_mode. Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond