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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] use inode_change_ok for setattr permission checking
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:00:41 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028030040.GP4985@disturbed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081027133640.GD761@infradead.org>

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:36:40AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of implementing our own checks use inode_change_ok to check for
> nessecary permission in setattr.  There is a slight change in behaviour
  ^^^^^^^^^
necessary

> as inode_change_ok doesn't allow i_mode updates to add the suid or sgid
> without superuser privilegues while the old XFS code just stripped away
> those bits from the file mode.

Better to get an error than silently lose them, I think.

> (First sent on Semptember 29th)
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28  3:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-27 13:36 [PATCH 3/3] use inode_change_ok for setattr permission checking Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-28  3:00 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-26 20:35 Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-29 21:53 Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-07 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-29  6:35 ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-11-11 22:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-12  4:24     ` Timothy Shimmin

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