Re: [PATCH] vfs: new O_NODE open flag

Jamie Lokier
2009-09-28T13:28:46Z

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> BTW I just checked, and it is possible to re-open or promote an fd
> opened with O_NODE like this:
>
> char tmp[64];
>
> fd = open(filename, O_NODE | O_NOACCESS);
> /* ... */
> sprintf(tmp, "/proc/self/fd/%i", fd);
> fd_rw = open(tmp, O_RDWR);
>
> Now fd_rw is guaranteed to refer to the same inode as fd.

If someone passes you a file descriptor opened with O_RDONLY, you
shouldn't be able to upgrade it to O_RDWR unless you have access to
the file and could do a normal open() on the file.

I hope the above cannot convert O_NOACCESS to O_RDWR without checking
that you have access to the file.

Hmm. I have just tried, and you _can _use open("/proc/self/fd/%d",
O_RDWR) to re-open with more permissions when you can't access the
path which /proc/self/fd/%d pretends to link to. It looks a bit
dubious, as you might have been passed an O_RDONLY descriptor with the
intention that you can't write to it... Oh well!

-- Jamie