[PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate

From: David P. Quigley <[email protected]>

Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has
changed since the files were opened.

Acked-by: James Morris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[email protected]>

---
 fs/open.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.22/fs/open.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/fs/open.c
+++ linux-2.6.22/fs/open.c
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ 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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