[PATCH -V2 08/16] richacl: Permission check algorithm

Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-07-02T18:44:58Z

As in the standard POSIX file permission model, each process is the
owner, group, or other file class. A process is

- in the owner file class if it owns the file,
- in the group file class if it is in the file's owning group or it
matches any of the user or group entries, and
- in the other file class otherwise.

Each file class is associated with a file mask.

A richacl grants a requested access if the NFSv4 acl in the richacl
grants the requested permissions (according to the NFSv4 permission
check algorithm) and the file mask that applies to the process includes
the requested permissions.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
fs/richacl_base.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/richacl.h | 2 +
2 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/richacl_base.c b/fs/richacl_base.c
index bb9b762..7ef3695 100644
--- a/fs/richacl_base.c
+++ b/fs/richacl_base.c
@@ -368,3 +368,90 @@ richacl_chmod(struct richacl *acl, mode_t mode)
return clone;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(richacl_chmod);
+
+/**
+ * richacl_permission - richacl permission check algorithm
+ * @inode: inode to check
+ * @acl: rich acl of the inode
+ * @mask: requested access (ACE4_* bitmask)
+ *
+ * Checks if the current process is granted @mask flags in @acl.
+ */
+int
+richacl_permission(struct inode *inode, const struct richacl *acl,
+ unsigned int mask)
+{
+ const struct richace *ace;
+ unsigned int file_mask, requested = mask, denied = 0;
+ int in_owning_group = in_group_p(inode->i_gid);
+ int in_owner_or_group_class = in_owning_group;
+
+ /*
+ * A process is
+ * - in the owner file class if it owns the file,
+ * - in the group file class if it is in the file's owning group or
+ * it matches any of the user or group entries, and
+ * - in the other file class otherwise.
+ */
+
+ /*
+ * Check if the acl grants the requested access and determine which
+ * file class the process is in.
+ */
+ richacl_for_each_entry(ace, acl) {
+ unsigned int ace_mask = ace->e_mask;
+
+ if (richace_is_inherit_only(ace))
+ continue;
+ if (richace_is_owner(ace)) {
+ if (current_fsuid() != inode->i_uid)
+ continue;
+ goto is_owner;
+ } else if (richace_is_group(ace)) {
+ if (!in_owning_group)
+ continue;
+ } else if (richace_is_unix_id(ace)) {
+ if (ace->e_flags & ACE4_IDENTIFIER_GROUP) {
+ if (!in_group_p(ace->u.e_id))
+ continue;
+ } else {
+ if (current_fsuid() != ace->u.e_id)
+ continue;
+ }
+ } else
+ goto is_everyone;
+
+is_owner:
+ /* The process is in the owner or group file class. */
+ in_owner_or_group_class = 1;
+
+is_everyone:
+ /* Check which mask flags the ACE allows or denies. */
+ if (richace_is_deny(ace))
+ denied |= ace_mask & mask;
+ mask &= ~ace_mask;
+
+ /*
+ * Keep going until we know which file class
+ * the process is in.
+ */
+ if (!mask && in_owner_or_group_class)
+ break;
+ }
+ denied |= mask;
+
+ /*
+ * The file class a process is in determines which file mask applies.
+ * Check if that file mask also grants the requested access.
+ */
+ if (current_fsuid() == inode->i_uid)
+ file_mask = acl->a_owner_mask;
+ else if (in_owner_or_group_class)
+ file_mask = acl->a_group_mask;
+ else
+ file_mask = acl->a_other_mask;
+ denied |= requested & ~file_mask;
+
+ return denied ? -EACCES : 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(richacl_permission);
diff --git a/include/linux/richacl.h b/include/linux/richacl.h
index 1ea33ee..3a8e6ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/richacl.h
+++ b/include/linux/richacl.h
@@ -270,5 +270,7 @@ extern unsigned int richacl_mode_to_mask(mode_t);
extern unsigned int richacl_want_to_mask(int);
extern void richacl_compute_max_masks(struct richacl *);
extern struct richacl *richacl_chmod(struct richacl *, mode_t);
+extern int richacl_permission(struct inode *, const struct richacl *,
+ unsigned int);

#endif /* __RICHACL_H */
--
1.7.2.rc1