security: make LSMs explicitly mask off permissions
SELinux needs to pass the MAY_ACCESS flag so it can handle auditting
correctly. Presently the masking of MAY_* flags is done in the VFS. In
order to allow LSMs to decide what flags they care about and what flags
they don't just pass them all and the each LSM mask off what they don't
need. This patch should contain no functional changes to either the VFS or
any LSM.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index fe34c2b..42d2d28 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -282,8 +282,7 @@
if (retval)
return retval;
- return security_inode_permission(inode,
- mask & (MAY_READ|MAY_WRITE|MAY_EXEC|MAY_APPEND));
+ return security_inode_permission(inode, mask);
}
/**