Re: [PATCH v2] attr: block mode changes of symlinks

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:58:49 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Changing the mode of symlinks is meaningless as the vfs doesn't take the
> mode of a symlink into account during path lookup permission checking.
> 
> However, the vfs doesn't block mode changes on symlinks. This however,
> has lead to an untenable mess roughly classifiable into the following
> two categories:
> 
> [...]

Let's get this into -next and see whether there's any obvious immediate
fallout because of this.

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Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.misc

[1/1] attr: block mode changes of symlinks
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/6be357f00aad