Current efivarfs uses simple_setattr which allows the setting of any
size in the inode cache. This is wrong because a zero size file is
used to indicate an "uncommitted" variable, so by simple means of
truncating the file (as root) any variable may be turned to look like
it's uncommitted. Fix by adding an efivarfs_setattr routine which
does not allow updating of the cached inode size (which now only comes
from the underlying variable).
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/efivarfs/inode.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/inode.c b/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
index ec23da8405ff..a4a6587ecd2e 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/inode.c
@@ -187,7 +187,24 @@ efivarfs_fileattr_set(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
return 0;
}
+/* copy of simple_setattr except that it doesn't do i_size updates */
+static int efivarfs_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct iattr *iattr)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
+ int error;
+
+ error = setattr_prepare(idmap, dentry, iattr);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
+ setattr_copy(idmap, inode, iattr);
+ mark_inode_dirty(inode);
+ return 0;
+}
+
static const struct inode_operations efivarfs_file_inode_operations = {
.fileattr_get = efivarfs_fileattr_get,
.fileattr_set = efivarfs_fileattr_set,
+ .setattr = efivarfs_setattr,
};
--
2.35.3
