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authorMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>2008-07-31 13:41:58 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-10-23 05:13:25 -0400
commitf696a3659fc4b3a3bf4bc83d9dbec5e5a2ffd929 (patch)
tree738adf557608f26e881a710839de12b7527549b6 /fs/namei.c
parent5cec56deb6d41b5b570306b17cd0b1590ebd0897 (diff)
[PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()
For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites. This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission() method. In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for performing this check. Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are not calling generic_permission(). Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode. Also fix up the following code: - coda control file is never executable - sysctl files are never executable - hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove - hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c21
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 9e2a534383d9..09ce58e49e72 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -212,8 +212,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
* Read/write DACs are always overridable.
* Executable DACs are overridable if at least one exec bit is set.
*/
- if (!(mask & MAY_EXEC) ||
- (inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ if (!(mask & MAY_EXEC) || execute_ok(inode))
if (capable(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
return 0;
@@ -249,23 +248,11 @@ int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
}
/* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
- if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission) {
+ if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->permission)
retval = inode->i_op->permission(inode, mask);
- if (!retval) {
- /*
- * Exec permission on a regular file is denied if none
- * of the execute bits are set.
- *
- * This check should be done by the ->permission()
- * method.
- */
- if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
- !(inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO))
- return -EACCES;
- }
- } else {
+ else
retval = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
- }
+
if (retval)
return retval;