From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> The chattr manpage has this to say about immutable files: "A file with the 'i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file, most of the file's metadata can not be modified, and the file can not be opened in write mode." However, we don't actually check the immutable flag in the setattr code, which means that we can update project ids and extent size hints on supposedly immutable files. Therefore, reject a setattr call on an immutable file except for the case where we're trying to unset IMMUTABLE. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c index 2bd1c5ab5008..9cf0bc0ae2bd 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -1067,6 +1067,14 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr_xflags( !capable(CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE)) return -EPERM; + /* + * If immutable is set and we are not clearing it, we're not allowed + * to change anything else in the inode. + */ + if ((ip->i_d.di_flags & XFS_DIFLAG_IMMUTABLE) && + (fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE)) + return -EPERM; + /* diflags2 only valid for v3 inodes. */ di_flags2 = xfs_flags2diflags2(ip, fa->fsx_xflags); if (di_flags2 && ip->i_d.di_version < 3)
