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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/12] f*xattr: allow O_PATH descriptors
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:59:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191128155940.17530-8-mszeredi@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191128155940.17530-1-mszeredi@redhat.com>

This allows xattr ops on symlink/special files referenced by an O_PATH
descriptor without having to play games with /proc/self/fd/NN (which
doesn't work for symlinks anyway).

This capability is the same as would be given by introducing ...at()
variants with an AT_EMPTY_PATH argument.  Looking at getattr/setattr type
syscalls, this is allowed for fstatat() and fchownat(), but not for
fchmodat() and utimensat().  What's the logic?

While this carries a minute risk of someone relying on the property of
xattr syscalls rejecting O_PATH descriptors, it saves the trouble of
introducing another set of syscalls.

Only file->f_path and file->f_inode are accessed in these functions.

Current versions return EBADF, hence easy to detect the presense of this
feature and fall back in case it's missing.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 90dd78f0eb27..fd1335b86e60 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(lsetxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fsetxattr, int, fd, const char __user *, name,
 		const void __user *,value, size_t, size, int, flags)
 {
-	struct fd f = fdget(fd);
+	struct fd f = fdget_raw(fd);
 	int error = -EBADF;
 
 	if (!f.file)
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(lgetxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fgetxattr, int, fd, const char __user *, name,
 		void __user *, value, size_t, size)
 {
-	struct fd f = fdget(fd);
+	struct fd f = fdget_raw(fd);
 	ssize_t error = -EBADF;
 
 	if (!f.file)
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(llistxattr, const char __user *, pathname, char __user *, list,
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(flistxattr, int, fd, char __user *, list, size_t, size)
 {
-	struct fd f = fdget(fd);
+	struct fd f = fdget_raw(fd);
 	ssize_t error = -EBADF;
 
 	if (!f.file)
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(lremovexattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fremovexattr, int, fd, const char __user *, name)
 {
-	struct fd f = fdget(fd);
+	struct fd f = fdget_raw(fd);
 	int error = -EBADF;
 
 	if (!f.file)
-- 
2.21.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-28 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-28 15:59 [PATCH 00/12] various vfs patches Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 01/12] aio: fix async fsync creds Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-13  9:32   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-05-04  8:05   ` Avi Kivity
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 02/12] fs_parse: fix fs_param_v_optional handling Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-29 11:31   ` Andrew Price
2019-11-29 14:43     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-29 15:56       ` Andrew Price
2019-12-16 23:28   ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  1:18     ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  3:27       ` Al Viro
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 03/12] vfs: verify param type in vfs_parse_sb_flag() Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 04/12] uapi: deprecate STATX_ALL Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 05/12] statx: don't clear STATX_ATIME on SB_RDONLY Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 06/12] utimensat: AT_EMPTY_PATH support Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 08/12] vfs: allow unprivileged whiteout creation Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  3:51   ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  4:22     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 09/12] fs_parser: "string" with missing value is a "flag" Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17 17:32   ` Al Viro
2019-12-17 18:31     ` Al Viro
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 10/12] vfs: don't parse forbidden flags Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 11/12] vfs: don't parse "posixacl" option Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  3:42   ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  4:18     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  4:28       ` Al Viro
2019-11-28 15:59 ` [PATCH 12/12] vfs: don't parse "silent" option Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  3:37   ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  4:12     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  4:16       ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  4:19         ` Al Viro
2019-12-17  4:23           ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  4:28             ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-17  4:17       ` Al Viro
2019-12-13  9:33 ` [PATCH 00/12] various vfs patches Miklos Szeredi
2019-12-16 23:13   ` Al Viro

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