From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:46554 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932963AbcITQN2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:13:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:13:24 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Al Viro , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] posix_acl: Clear SGID bit when setting file permissions Message-ID: <20160920161324.GA19802@infradead.org> References: <1474299768-15150-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1474299768-15150-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 05:42:48PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > When file permissions are modified via chmod(2) and the user is not in > the owning group or capable of CAP_FSETID, the setgid bit is cleared in > inode_change_ok(). Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr(2) sets the file > permissions as well as the new ACL, but doesn't clear the setgid bit in > a similar way; this allows to bypass the check in chmod(2). Fix that. Looks good: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig (although I would have split it into a refactor patch and the actual fix for clearing the suid bit)