Hi Andreas,
--On 2 November 2006 10:51:21 PM +0100 Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday 02 November 2006 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 17:24:02 +0100
Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and
> directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the
> owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an
> explanation.)
>
> The original check in ext2/ext3 when user.* xattrs were merged was more
> restrictive than intended, and when the xattr permission checks were
> moved into the VFS, read access to user.* attributes on sticky directores
> ended up being denied in addition.
Am struggling to understand the impact of this. I assume this problem was
introduced on Jan 9 by e0ad7b073eb7317e5afe0385b02dcb1d52a1eedf "move xattr
permission checks into the VFS"?
Commits e0ad7b073eb7317e5afe0385b02dcb1d52a1eedf and
c37ef806a3e1c0bca65fd03b7590d56d19625da4 move the following check from
ext3_xattr_user_set() to xattr_permission(), which is used in vfs_getxattr()
as well as xfs_setxattr() and vfs_removexattr(),
so this added the check to
the xfs_getxattr() path by accident:
[] if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
[] (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
[] return -EPERM;
Now, I'm a bit confused.
xfs_getxattr?
I see the "correct" version of the test in xfs_attr.c/attr_user_capable().
--Tim
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