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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2007-10-17 10:27:08 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 19:42:52 +0400
commit22590e41cb569add194829c08dc0ceea74b38a65 (patch)
tree0db73fe0e78bcde816dcf289e0aa5323abf73833 /fs/namei.c
parent043f46f6151df2c518988b5e41376e42491257b5 (diff)
downloadlinux-22590e41cb569add194829c08dc0ceea74b38a65.tar.xz
fix execute checking in permission()
permission() checks that MAY_EXEC is only allowed on regular files if at least one execute bit is set in the file mode. generic_permission() already ensures this, so the extra check in permission() is superfluous. If the filesystem defines it's own ->permission() the check may still be needed. In this case move it after ->permission(). This is needed because filesystems such as FUSE may need to refresh the inode attributes before checking permissions. This check should be moved inside ->permission(), but that's another story. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c36
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 7cba63295a82..2792e0ca01d4 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -227,10 +227,10 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
{
- umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
int retval, submask;
if (mask & MAY_WRITE) {
+ umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
/*
* Nobody gets write access to a read-only fs.
@@ -246,22 +246,34 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
return -EACCES;
}
-
- /*
- * MAY_EXEC on regular files requires special handling: We override
- * filesystem execute permissions if the mode bits aren't set or
- * the fs is mounted with the "noexec" flag.
- */
- if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(mode) && (!(mode & S_IXUGO) ||
- (nd && nd->mnt && (nd->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))))
- return -EACCES;
+ if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
+ /*
+ * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted
+ * with the "noexec" flag.
+ */
+ if (nd && nd->mnt && (nd->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
/* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
submask = mask & ~MAY_APPEND;
- if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission)
+ if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission) {
retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, submask, nd);
- else
+ if (!retval) {
+ /*
+ * Exec permission on a regular file is denied if none
+ * of the execute bits are set.
+ *
+ * This check should be done by the ->permission()
+ * method.
+ */
+ if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
+ !(inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO))
+ return -EACCES;
+ }
+ } else {
retval = generic_permission(inode, submask, NULL);
+ }
if (retval)
return retval;