From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Subject: [PATCH resend 1/2] btrfs: allow defrag on a file opened ro that has rw permissions
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 00:08:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717220900.3588-1-kilobyte@angband.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180717220357.hn7mvajicpy7hu3l@angband.pl>
Requiring a rw descriptor conflicts both ways with exec, returning ETXTBSY
whenever you try to defrag a program that's currently being run, or
causing intermittent exec failures on a live system being defragged.
As defrag doesn't change the file's contents in any way, there's no reason
to consider it a rw operation. Thus, let's check only whether the file
could have been opened rw. Such access control is still needed as
currently defrag can use extra disk space, and might trigger bugs.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 43ecbe620dea..01c150b6ab62 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2941,7 +2941,8 @@ static int btrfs_ioctl_defrag(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
ret = btrfs_defrag_root(root);
break;
case S_IFREG:
- if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)) {
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
+ inode_permission(inode, MAY_WRITE)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
--
2.18.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-17 22:05 [PATCH resend 0/2] btrfs: fix races between exec and defrag Adam Borowski
2018-07-17 22:08 ` Adam Borowski [this message]
2018-07-17 22:09 ` [PATCH resend 2/2] btrfs: defrag: return EPERM not EINVAL when only permissions fail Adam Borowski
2018-07-23 15:26 ` [PATCH resend 1/2] btrfs: allow defrag on a file opened ro that has rw permissions David Sterba
2018-07-24 20:35 ` Adam Borowski
2018-08-01 13:03 ` David Sterba
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20180717220900.3588-1-kilobyte@angband.pl \
--to=kilobyte@angband.pl \
--cc=dsterba@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mfasheh@suse.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).