On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 19:15 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> +/**
> + * exec_permission - check for general execute permission on file
> + * @inode: inode to check access rights for
> + * @mask: right to check for
> + *
> + * Exec permission on a regular file is denied if none of the execute
> + * bits are set.
> + *
> + * This needs to be called by filesystems which define a
> + * ->permission() method, and don't call generic_permission().
> + */
> +int exec_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
> +{
> + if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
> + !(inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO))
> + return -EACCES;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
Hmm... What if !(mask & MAY_EXEC)? AFAICS, the above will return 0.
A better approach would be to use something like
if (!(mask & MAY_EXEC))
return -EACCES;
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !(inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO))
return -EACCES;
return 0;
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