[PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last step ... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution. LOOKUP_CHDIR is killed by that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index ae0e56f..6c76e1e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -268,8 +268,6 @@ if (nd) { if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_ACCESS) extra |= MAY_ACCESS; - if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_CHDIR) - extra |= MAY_CHDIR; if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_OPEN) extra |= MAY_OPEN; }
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index b2e4c93..8e02d42 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -501,12 +501,11 @@ struct nameidata nd; int error; - error = __user_walk(filename, - LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY|LOOKUP_CHDIR, &nd); + error = __user_walk(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, &nd); if (error) goto out; - error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC); + error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR); if (error) goto dput_and_out;
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 24d88e9..3cf62d2 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ #define LOOKUP_OPEN (0x0100) #define LOOKUP_CREATE (0x0200) #define LOOKUP_ACCESS (0x0400) -#define LOOKUP_CHDIR (0x0800) extern int __user_walk(const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *); extern int __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);