[PATCH 2/2] use mnt_want_write in compat_attrmulti ioctl

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun Dec 28 13:13:36 CST 2008


The compat version of the attrmulti ioctl needs to ask for and then
later release write access to the mount just like the native version,
otherwise we could potentially write to read-only mounts.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Index: xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c	2008-12-29 01:25:19.000000000 +0000
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c	2008-12-29 01:26:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  */
 #include <linux/compat.h>
 #include <linux/ioctl.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include "xfs.h"
 #include "xfs_fs.h"
@@ -458,15 +459,23 @@
 					&ops[i].am_length, ops[i].am_flags);
 			break;
 		case ATTR_OP_SET:
+			ops[i].am_error = mnt_want_write(parfilp->f_path.mnt);
+			if (ops[i].am_error)
+				break;
 			ops[i].am_error = xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
 					dentry->d_inode, attr_name,
 					compat_ptr(ops[i].am_attrvalue),
 					ops[i].am_length, ops[i].am_flags);
+			mnt_drop_write(parfilp->f_path.mnt);
 			break;
 		case ATTR_OP_REMOVE:
+			ops[i].am_error = mnt_want_write(parfilp->f_path.mnt);
+			if (ops[i].am_error)
+				break;
 			ops[i].am_error = xfs_attrmulti_attr_remove(
 					dentry->d_inode, attr_name,
 					ops[i].am_flags);
+			mnt_drop_write(parfilp->f_path.mnt);
 			break;
 		default:
 			ops[i].am_error = EINVAL;




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