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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: samsonov@krista.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs/attr.c patch
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 09:50:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110519145004.GA15698@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519155702.38a0481d@wks1198.krista.ru>

But you're removing the ability for a process with CAP_CHOWN to
chgrp all files.

You also change behavior (which may be wrong) when doing chgrp to
which would cause no change but the group is not in_group_p(),
which might break current users.

Quoting samsonov@krista.ru (samsonov@krista.ru):
> --- ./linux-2.6.33.4.orig/fs/attr.c	2010-05-13 02:04:27.000000000 +0400
> +++ ./linux-2.6.33.4/fs/attr.c	2011-05-19 15:43:14.533672804 +0400
> @@ -35,9 +35,7 @@
>  
>  	/* Make sure caller can chgrp. */
>  	if ((ia_valid & ATTR_GID) &&
> -	    (current_fsuid() != inode->i_uid ||
> -	    (!in_group_p(attr->ia_gid) && attr->ia_gid != inode->i_gid)) &&
> -	    !capable(CAP_CHOWN))
> +	    !(in_group_p(attr->ia_gid) && is_owner_or_cap(inode)))
>  		goto error;
>  
>  	/* Make sure a caller can chmod. */
> 
> I think that fileowner can change group of file.
> 
> 
>  
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 11:57 fs/attr.c patch samsonov
2011-05-19 14:50 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]

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