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vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)

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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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Miklos Szeredi
2016-09-16 12:44:20 +02:00
parent e71b9dff06
commit f2b20f6ee8
3 changed files with 17 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -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