56 lines
2.2 KiB
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56 lines
2.2 KiB
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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:11:28 +0000
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Subject: [PATCH] xattr: allow setting user.* attributes on symlinks by owner
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Kvmtool and clear containers supports using user attributes to label host
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files with the virtual uid/guid of the file in the container. This allows an
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end user to manage their files and a complete uid space without all the ugly
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namespace stuff.
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The one gap in the support is symlinks because an end user can change the
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ownership of a symbolic link. We support attributes on these files as you
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can already (as root) set security attributes on them.
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The current rules seem slightly over-paranoid and as we have a use case this
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patch enables updating the attributes on a symbolic link IFF you are the
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owner of the synlink (as permissions are not usually meaningful on the link
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itself).
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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---
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fs/xattr.c | 14 ++++++++------
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
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index 90dd78f0eb27..a81d9690f136 100644
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--- a/fs/xattr.c
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+++ b/fs/xattr.c
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@@ -119,15 +119,17 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
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}
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/*
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- * In the user.* namespace, only regular files and directories can have
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- * extended attributes. For sticky directories, only the owner and
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- * privileged users can write attributes.
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+ * In the user.* namespace, only regular files, symbolic links, and
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+ * directories can have extended attributes. For symbolic links and
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+ * sticky directories, only the owner and privileged users can write
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+ * attributes.
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*/
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if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
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- if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
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+ if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
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return (mask & MAY_WRITE) ? -EPERM : -ENODATA;
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- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX) &&
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- (mask & MAY_WRITE) && !inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
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+ if (((S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
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+ || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) && (mask & MAY_WRITE)
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+ && !inode_owner_or_capable(inode))
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return -EPERM;
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}
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--
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https://clearlinux.org
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