On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 11:28 PM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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> Did you miss my comment on v1, or do you not think this use case is going to hurt any application that is not a rootkit? chattr +i foo => OK chattr +i foo => -EPERM Thanks, Amir.