Newly created file on ext2 inherits inode flags from parent directory, so new inode created in append-only directory has S_APPEND flag set, may_open() called by do_last() checks that flag then returns -EPERM, but at that time the new inode is already created. This can be reproduced by: # mkdir -p /mnt/ext2/append-only # chattr +a /mnt/ext2/append-only # ./opentest /mnt/ext2/append-only/newtestfile # ls -l /mnt/ext2/append-only/newtestfile opentest will return 'Operation not permitted', but the ls shows that newtestfile is already created. # cat opentest.c #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666); if (fd == -1) perror("open failed"); return 0; } To avoid this, check EXT2_APPEND_FL flag first in ext2_create before really allocating new inode. Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/namei.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c index 761fde8..b9f8998 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/quotaops.h> +#include <linux/namei.h> #include "ext2.h" #include "xattr.h" #include "acl.h" @@ -97,6 +98,16 @@ struct dentry *ext2_get_parent(struct dentry *child) static int ext2_create (struct inode * dir, struct dentry * dentry, int mode, struct nameidata *nd) { struct inode *inode; + int open_flag = nd->intent.open.file->f_flags; + + if ((EXT2_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT2_FL_INHERITED) & EXT2_APPEND_FL) { + if ((open_flag & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY && + !(open_flag & O_APPEND)) + return -EPERM; + if (open_flag & O_TRUNC) + return -EPERM; + } + dquot_initialize(dir); -- 1.7.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html