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authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>2009-12-29 14:50:19 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-01-06 14:26:45 -0800
commit92a5184168d552fd3e8f43d05ac04924d6aaa43b (patch)
tree469954c331d0d38baeb492235db120759c666fd5 /fs/namei.c
parent64b220304ef04ce44243aae5f477407a7dc26fa6 (diff)
generic_permission: MAY_OPEN is not write access
commit 7ea6600148c265b1fd53e521022b1d7aec81d974 upstream. generic_permission was refusing CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH-enabled processes from opening DAC-protected files read-only, because do_filp_open adds MAY_OPEN to the open mask. Ignore MAY_OPEN. After this patch, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is again sufficient to open(fname, O_RDONLY) on a file to which DAC otherwise refuses us read permission. Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index fcfc5539252..b224905ff98 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
/*
* Searching includes executable on directories, else just read.
*/
+ mask &= MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC;
if (mask == MAY_READ || (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && !(mask & MAY_WRITE)))
if (capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
return 0;