From f2b20f6ee842313a0d681dbbf7f87b70291a6a3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:44:20 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Tested-by: Aihua Zhang Cc: # v3.18+ --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 901e25d495cc..7c391366fb43 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset, #define ATTR_KILL_PRIV (1 << 14) #define ATTR_OPEN (1 << 15) /* Truncating from open(O_TRUNC) */ #define ATTR_TIMES_SET (1 << 16) +#define ATTR_TOUCH (1 << 17) /* * Whiteout is represented by a char device. The following constants define the -- cgit v1.2.3