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authorErnesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com>2017-07-30 22:43:41 -0400
committerMoyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-08-12 12:17:27 +0200
commit2210058972b14e7c30fdf272702ea37cfd02f95b (patch)
treeb7d5fce8f6f2492b7e242e16fa48afbec8c2b553
parent0658f0dd3e372bedd7af683ada6ee7d0fba29f1e (diff)
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>
-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 87d9bbf6a..b359400fc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -196,16 +196,17 @@ __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 = ext4_current_time(inode);
- ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+ update_mode = 1;
}
break;
@@ -228,8 +229,14 @@ __ext4_set_acl(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int type,
value, size, 0);
kfree(value);
- if (!error)
+ if (!error) {
set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);
+ if (update_mode) {
+ inode->i_mode = mode;
+ inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
+ ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+ }
+ }
return error;
}