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| author | Aleksa Sarai | 2023-07-28 21:58:26 +1000 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner | 2023-07-28 16:43:05 +0200 |
| commit | 5daeb41a6fc9d0d81cb2291884b7410e062d8fa1 (patch) | |
| tree | d78ff44ccaee481643db3dc9e290db4a69b905c7 | |
| parent | 4859c257d295949c23f4074850a8c2ec31357abb (diff) | |
fchmodat2: add support for AT_EMPTY_PATH
This allows userspace to avoid going through /proc/self/fd when dealing
with all types of file descriptors for chmod(), and makes fchmodat2() a
proper superset of all other chmod syscalls.
The primary difference between fchmodat2(AT_EMPTY_PATH) and fchmod() is
that fchmod() doesn't operate on O_PATH file descriptors by design. To
quote open(2):
> O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39)
> [...]
> The file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
> read(2), write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2), ioctl(2),
> mmap(2)) fail with the error EBADF.
However, procfs has allowed userspace to do this operation ever since
the introduction of O_PATH through magic-links, so adding this feature
is only an improvement for programs that have to mess around with
/proc/self/fd/$n today to get this behaviour. In addition,
fchownat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) has existed since the introduction of O_PATH and
allows chown() operations directly on O_PATH descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230728-fchmodat2-at_empty_path-v1-1-f3add31d3516@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index e52d78e5a333..b8883ec286f5 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -678,10 +678,12 @@ static int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode, int error; unsigned int lookup_flags; - if (unlikely(flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)) + if (unlikely(flags & ~(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | AT_EMPTY_PATH))) return -EINVAL; lookup_flags = (flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) ? 0 : LOOKUP_FOLLOW; + if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH) + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY; retry: error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path); |