Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix double-lock while chowning setuid file w/ xattrs

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>]

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On 11/26/12 9:55 AM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> reiserfs_chown_xattrs() takes the iattr struct passed into
> ->setattr and uses it to iterate over all the attrs associated with
> a file to change ownership of xattrs (and transfer quota associated
> with the xattr files).
> 
> When a setuid file is chowned and the setuid bit is cleared,
> reiserfs_setattr gets called with both ATTR_MODE and ATTR_UID set.
> Since ATTR_MODE causes the ACL chmod code to be invoked, we end up
> calling reiserfs_acl_chmod on the xattr file. There's a missing
> IS_PRIVATE check there, so instead of bailing out immediately, we
> end up taking the inode->i_mutex a second time in open_xa_dir.
> 
> The other xattr paths are protected against similar situations by
> bailing out on IS_PRIVATE. This patch adds the missing check to
> reiserfs_acl_chmod.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org 
> --- fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c |    3 +++ 1 file changed, 3
> insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr_acl.c @@
> -448,6 +448,9 @@ int reiserfs_acl_chmod(struct inode *ino struct
> posix_acl *acl, *clone; int error;
> 
> +	if (IS_PRIVATE(inode)) +		return 0; + if
> (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> 

Ignore this patch. It's incomplete. It avoids the double lock, but
ATTR_MODE is applied to the directory as well.

- -Jeff


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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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