[PATCH 0/5 v2] fs: Fixes for removing xid bits and security labels
Jan Kara
jack at suse.cz
Thu Jan 8 03:18:32 CST 2015
Hello!
Al, can you have a look at these fixes please? Thanks!
Honza
On Thu 18-12-14 13:49:01, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> warning in XFS made me look into detail into how clearing of suid / sgid
> bits and security labels is done. And I've spotted a few issues:
> 1) MS_NOSEC handling is broken - we set it after each file_remove_suid() call.
> However we needn't have removed suid bit simply because we have
> CAP_SYS_FSID and further writes to the file from processes without this
> capability still need to clear the suid bit.
> 2) file_remove_suid() is a misnomer since it also handles removing of
> security labels. It is even more confusing because should_remove_suid()
> doesn't return whether file_remove_suid() is needed or not.
> 3) On truncate we do clear suid bits but not security labels. According to
> documentation in include/linux/security.h that's a bug but please correct
> me if I'm wrong.
> 4) ocfs2 doesn't clear security labels - hard to fix, I left it alone for now.
> 5) XFS didn't provide proper exclusion for clearing mode bits.
>
> This series aims at fixing above issues.
>
> Since v1 I have removed bogus patch changing inode_set_flags(), I have
> updated changelog of patch 4/5 to better explain why ->inode_killpriv should
> be called and I have included a fix for MS_NOSEC handling in this series.
> Al, can you please merge the patches? Thanks!
>
> Honza
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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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