[RFC][PATCH 22/30] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for chmod/chown callers

Dave Hansen
2008-02-08T22:38:21Z

chown/chmod,etc... don't call permission in the same way that the normal
"open for write" calls do. They still write to the filesystem, so bump the
write count during these operations.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/open.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/open.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends fs/open.c
--- linux-2.6.git/fs/open.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends 2008-02-08 13:04:57.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/open.c 2008-02-08 13:04:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -571,12 +571,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int

audit_inode(NULL, dentry);

- err = -EROFS;
- if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
+ err = mnt_want_write(file->f_vfsmnt);
+ if (err)
goto out_putf;
err = -EPERM;
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
- goto out_putf;
+ goto out_drop_write;
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
if (mode == (mode_t) -1)
mode = inode->i_mode;
@@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int
err = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

+out_drop_write:
+ mnt_drop_write(file->f_vfsmnt);
out_putf:
fput(file);
out:
@@ -604,13 +606,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, co
goto out;
inode = nd.dentry->d_inode;

- error = -EROFS;
- if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
+ error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+ if (error)
goto dput_and_out;

error = -EPERM;
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
- goto dput_and_out;
+ goto out_drop_write;

mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
if (mode == (mode_t) -1)
@@ -620,6 +622,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, co
error = notify_change(nd.dentry, &newattrs);
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);

+out_drop_write:
+ mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
dput_and_out:
path_release(&nd);
out:
@@ -642,9 +646,6 @@ static int chown_common(struct dentry *
printk(KERN_ERR "chown_common: NULL inode\n");
goto out;
}
- error = -EROFS;
- if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
- goto out;
error = -EPERM;
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
goto out;
@@ -675,7 +676,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chown(const char __u
error = user_path_walk(filename, &nd);
if (error)
goto out;
+ error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_release;
error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group);
+ mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
+out_release:
path_release(&nd);
out:
return error;
@@ -695,7 +701,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchownat(int dfd, co
error = __user_walk_fd(dfd, filename, follow, &nd);
if (error)
goto out;
+ error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_release;
error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group);
+ mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
+out_release:
path_release(&nd);
out:
return error;
@@ -709,7 +720,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_lchown(const char __
error = user_path_walk_link(filename, &nd);
if (error)
goto out;
+ error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_release;
error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group);
+ mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
+out_release:
path_release(&nd);
out:
return error;
@@ -726,9 +742,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchown(unsigned int
if (!file)
goto out;

+ error = mnt_want_write(file->f_vfsmnt);
+ if (error)
+ goto out_fput;
dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
audit_inode(NULL, dentry);
error = chown_common(dentry, user, group);
+ mnt_drop_write(file->f_vfsmnt);
+out_fput:
fput(file);
out:
return error;
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