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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-16 12:44:20 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-09-16 12:44:20 +0200
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vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)
This fixes a bug where the permission was not properly checked in overlayfs. The testcase is ltp/utimensat01. It is also cleaner and safer to do the permission checking in the vfs helper instead of the caller. This patch introduces an additional ia_valid flag ATTR_TOUCH (since touch(1) is the most obvious user of utimes(NULL)) that is passed into notify_change whenever the conditions for this special permission checking mode are met. Reported-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
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