Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

From: Amit K. Arora
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 09:09:21 EST


On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:56:30AM -0400, David Patrick Quigley wrote:
> From: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has
> changed since the files were opened.

Thanks for your patch! Will include it in the patchset.

--
Regards,
Amit Arora
>
> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> fs/open.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.22/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.22-fallocate/fs/open.c linux-2.6.22-fallocate-selinux/fs/open.c
> --- linux-2.6.22-fallocate/fs/open.c 2007-07-11 15:51:10.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.22-fallocate-selinux/fs/open.c 2007-07-11 16:10:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -411,6 +411,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, in
> goto out;
> if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
> goto out_fput;
> + ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out_fput;
>
> inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
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