vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)
This fixes a bug where the permission was not properly checked in
overlayfs. The testcase is ltp/utimensat01.
It is also cleaner and safer to do the permission checking in the vfs
helper instead of the caller.
This patch introduces an additional ia_valid flag ATTR_TOUCH (since
touch(1) is the most obvious user of utimes(NULL)) that is passed into
notify_change whenever the conditions for this special permission checking
mode are met.
Reported-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Aihua Zhang <zhangaihua1@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index 42bb42b..3c42cab 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -202,6 +202,21 @@
return -EPERM;
}
+ /*
+ * If utimes(2) and friends are called with times == NULL (or both
+ * times are UTIME_NOW), then we need to check for write permission
+ */
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_TOUCH) {
+ if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ if (!inode_owner_or_capable(inode)) {
+ error = inode_permission(inode, MAY_WRITE);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }
+ }
+
if ((ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
umode_t amode = attr->ia_mode;
/* Flag setting protected by i_mutex */