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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2010-01-13 14:16:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-03-07 17:04:48 -0800 |
| commit | 5e31d76f2817bd50258a092a7c5b15b3006fd61c (patch) | |
| tree | 736c73c564635d767a1592cc540a23695b96c6a3 /drivers/base | |
| parent | 0933e2d98d1b170ef62d48e18157f5dc43b58217 (diff) | |
Driver-Core: devtmpfs - reset inode permissions before unlinking
Before unlinking the inode, reset the current permissions of possible
references like hardlinks, so granted permissions can not be retained
across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case
that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c index 42ae452b36b..dac478c6e46 100644 --- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c +++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c @@ -301,6 +301,19 @@ int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev) if (dentry->d_inode) { err = vfs_getattr(nd.path.mnt, dentry, &stat); if (!err && dev_mynode(dev, dentry->d_inode, &stat)) { + struct iattr newattrs; + /* + * before unlinking this node, reset permissions + * of possible references like hardlinks + */ + newattrs.ia_uid = 0; + newattrs.ia_gid = 0; + newattrs.ia_mode = stat.mode & ~0777; + newattrs.ia_valid = + ATTR_UID|ATTR_GID|ATTR_MODE; + mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); + mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); err = vfs_unlink(nd.path.dentry->d_inode, dentry); if (!err || err == -ENOENT) |