From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> The file we are copying data into needs to have its setuid bit stripped before we start the data copy so that unprivileged users can't copy data into executables that are run with root privs. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 69809345977e..3b101183ea19 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -1574,6 +1574,16 @@ static ssize_t do_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in, struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out, size_t len, unsigned int flags) { + ssize_t ret; + + /* + * Clear the security bits if the process is not being run by root. + * This keeps people from modifying setuid and setgid binaries. + */ + ret = file_remove_privs(file_out); + if (ret) + return ret; + if (file_out->f_op->copy_file_range) return file_out->f_op->copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, len, flags); -- 2.19.1