In the "operation does permission checking" model used by fuse, chdir permission is not checked, since there's no chdir method. For this case set a lookup flag, which will be passed to ->permission(), so fuse can distinguish it from permission checks for other operations. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Index: linux/fs/fuse/dir.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fuse/dir.c 2006-07-27 14:38:04.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/fuse/dir.c 2006-07-27 14:38:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && !S_ISDIR(mode) && !(mode & S_IXUGO)) return -EACCES; - if (nd && (nd->flags & LOOKUP_ACCESS)) + if (nd && (nd->flags & (LOOKUP_ACCESS | LOOKUP_CHDIR))) return fuse_access(inode, mask); return 0; } Index: linux/fs/open.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/open.c 2006-07-27 14:35:14.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/open.c 2006-07-27 14:38:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -546,7 +546,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chdir(const char __u struct nameidata nd; int error; - error = __user_walk(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, &nd); + error = __user_walk(filename, + LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY|LOOKUP_CHDIR, &nd); if (error) goto out; Index: linux/include/linux/namei.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/namei.h 2006-07-27 14:35:14.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/linux/namei.h 2006-07-27 14:38:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LA #define LOOKUP_OPEN (0x0100) #define LOOKUP_CREATE (0x0200) #define LOOKUP_ACCESS (0x0400) +#define LOOKUP_CHDIR (0x0800) extern int FASTCALL(__user_walk(const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *)); extern int FASTCALL(__user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *)); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html