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* [PATCH] smackfs load append mode fix
@ 2009-01-28  3:56 Casey Schaufler
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From: Casey Schaufler @ 2009-01-28  3:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKLM, LSM, jmorris; +Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish, akpm, torvalds

From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>

Given just how hard it is to find the code that uses MAY_APPEND
it's probably not a big surprise that this went unnoticed for so
long. The Smack rules loading code is incorrectly setting the
MAY_READ bit when MAY_APPEND is requested.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>

---

 security/smack/smackfs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -uprN -X linux-2.6/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6/security/smack/smackfs.c linux-0112/security/smack/smackfs.c
--- linux-2.6/security/smack/smackfs.c	2009-01-09 21:43:42.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-0112/security/smack/smackfs.c	2009-01-19 11:05:09.000000000 -0800
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_load(struct fil
 		break;
 	case 'a':
 	case 'A':
-		rule.smk_access |= MAY_READ;
+		rule.smk_access |= MAY_APPEND;
 		break;
 	default:
 		goto out;


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