[RFC][PATCH 09/42] pass creds to get_empty_filp(), make sure dentry_open() passes the right creds

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Jul 10 2018 - 22:25:42 EST


From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

... and rename get_empty_filp() to alloc_empty_file().

dentry_open() gets creds as argument, but the only thing that sees those is
security_file_open() - file->f_cred still ends up with current_cred(). For
almost all callers it's the same thing, but there are several broken cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/file_table.c | 5 ++---
fs/internal.h | 2 +-
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
fs/open.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index eee7cf629e52..d7a03a47b702 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -101,9 +101,8 @@ int proc_nr_files(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
* done, you will imbalance int the mount's writer count
* and a warning at __fput() time.
*/
-struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
+struct file *alloc_empty_file(const struct cred *cred)
{
- const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
static long old_max;
struct file *f;
int error;
@@ -161,7 +160,7 @@ struct file *alloc_file(const struct path *path, fmode_t mode,
{
struct file *file;

- file = get_empty_filp();
+ file = alloc_empty_file(current_cred());
if (IS_ERR(file))
return file;

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 5645b4ebf494..66473bf388e4 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ extern void chroot_fs_refs(const struct path *, const struct path *);
/*
* file_table.c
*/
-extern struct file *get_empty_filp(void);
+extern struct file *alloc_empty_file(const struct cred *);

/*
* super.c
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 734cef54fdf8..af2ec1803f57 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3513,7 +3513,7 @@ static struct file *path_openat(struct nameidata *nd,
int opened = 0;
int error;

- file = get_empty_filp();
+ file = alloc_empty_file(current_cred());
if (IS_ERR(file))
return file;

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 558802e66e00..c0dbc67c31f1 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
/* We must always pass in a valid mount pointer. */
BUG_ON(!path->mnt);

- f = get_empty_filp();
+ f = alloc_empty_file(cred);
if (!IS_ERR(f)) {
f->f_flags = flags;
error = vfs_open(path, f, cred);
--
2.11.0