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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 02/24] rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:27:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070917182720.A41D6484@kernel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917182718.70494C9B@kernel>


may_open() calls vfs_permission() before it does checks for
IS_RDONLY(inode).  It checks _again_ inside of vfs_permission().

The check inside of vfs_permission() is going away eventually.
With the mnt_want/drop_write() functions, all of the r/o
checks (except for this one) are consistently done before
calling permission().  Because of this, I'd like to use
permission() to hold a debugging check to make sure that
the mnt_want/drop_write() calls are actually being made.

So, to do this:
1. remove the IS_RDONLY() check from permission()
2. enforce that you must mnt_want_write() before
   even calling permission()
3. enable a debugging in permission()

We need to rearrange may_open().  Here's the patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
---

 lxc-dave/fs/namei.c |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open fs/namei.c
--- lxc/fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open	2007-09-17 09:43:56.000000000 -0700
+++ lxc-dave/fs/namei.c	2007-09-17 09:43:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *ino
 int permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	int retval, submask;
+	struct vfsmount *mnt = NULL;
+
+	if (nd)
+		mnt = nd->mnt;
 
 	if (mask & MAY_WRITE) {
 		umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
@@ -251,7 +255,7 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int 
 		 * MAY_EXEC on regular files is denied if the fs is mounted
 		 * with the "noexec" flag.
 		 */
-		if (nd && nd->mnt && (nd->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
+		if (mnt && (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
 			return -EACCES;
 	}
 
@@ -1604,10 +1608,6 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
 	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
 		return -EISDIR;
 
-	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
 	/*
 	 * FIFO's, sockets and device files are special: they don't
 	 * actually live on the filesystem itself, and as such you
@@ -1622,6 +1622,10 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
 		flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
 	} else if (IS_RDONLY(inode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
 		return -EROFS;
+
+	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 	/*
 	 * An append-only file must be opened in append mode for writing.
 	 */
_

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-17 18:27 [PATCH 00/24] Read-only bind mounts Dave Hansen
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 01/24] filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:47     ` [PATCH] docuement " Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 22:07       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-20 17:25         ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-20 17:30           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-09-19 17:27   ` [PATCH 02/24] rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-20 18:47     ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 03/24] create cleanup helper svc_msnfs() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 17:39   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-19 17:45     ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:54       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-19 17:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 18:10           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 04/24] r/o bind mounts: stub functions Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 05/24] elevate write count open()'d files Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 06/24] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 07/24] elevate writer count for chown and friends Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 08/24] make access() use mnt check Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 09/24] elevate mnt writers for callers of vfs_mkdir() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 10/24] elevate write count during entire ncp_ioctl() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 11/24] elevate write count for link and symlink calls Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 12/24] elevate mount count for extended attributes Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 13/24] elevate write count for file_update_time() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 14/24] unix_find_other() elevate write count for touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 15/24] elevate write count over calls to vfs_rename() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 16/24] nfs: check mnt instead of superblock directly Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 17/24] elevate writer count for do_sys_truncate() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 18/24] elevate write count for do_utimes() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 19/24] elevate write count for do_sys_utime() and touch_atime() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 20/24] sys_mknodat(): elevate write count for vfs_mknod/create() Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 21/24] elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:38   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-17 18:27 ` [PATCH 22/24] do_rmdir(): elevate write count Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 17:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 14:21 ` [PATCH 00/24] Read-only bind mounts Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-19 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-19 21:24   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-19 21:56     ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-19 22:06       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20  9:58         ` Miklos Szeredi

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