Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs: Remove security attributes on truncate

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On 12/4/2014 5:27 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Similarly as we remove suid bit on truncate, we also want to remove
> security extended attributes.

NAK

Are you out of your mind?

In Smack and SELinux the security attributes are associated with the
container, not the data.

>
> After this patch there's only one user of should_remove_suid() - ocfs2 -
> and indeed it's buggy because it doesn't clear security attributes on
> write. However fixing it is difficult because of special locking
> constraints.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/inode.c         | 5 ++---
>  fs/open.c          | 6 ++++--
>  include/linux/fs.h | 6 +++++-
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index 6807a2707828..8595c7b8841c 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -1603,9 +1603,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(should_remove_suid);
>   * response to write or truncate. Return 0 if nothing has to be changed.
>   * Negative value on error (change should be denied).
>   */
> -int file_needs_remove_privs(struct file *file)
> +int dentry_needs_remove_privs(struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
>  	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
>  	int mask = 0;
>  	int ret;
> @@ -1621,7 +1620,7 @@ int file_needs_remove_privs(struct file *file)
>  		mask |= ATTR_KILL_PRIV;
>  	return mask;
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_needs_remove_privs);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_needs_remove_privs);
>  
>  static int __remove_privs(struct dentry *dentry, int kill)
>  {
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index de92c13b58be..e4e0863855d0 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs,
>  		newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_FILE;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* Remove suid/sgid on truncate too */
> -	ret = should_remove_suid(dentry);
> +	/* Remove suid/sgid and security markings on truncate too */
> +	ret = dentry_needs_remove_privs(dentry);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		return ret;
>  	if (ret)
>  		newattrs.ia_valid |= ret | ATTR_FORCE;
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index aac707cced66..c5ccc311e8fb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2429,7 +2429,11 @@ extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb);
>  extern void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode);
>  extern int should_remove_suid(struct dentry *);
>  extern int file_remove_privs(struct file *);
> -extern int file_needs_remove_privs(struct file *file);
> +extern int dentry_needs_remove_privs(struct dentry *dentry);
> +static inline int file_needs_remove_privs(struct file *file)
> +{
> +	return dentry_needs_remove_privs(file->f_path.dentry);
> +}
>  
>  extern void __insert_inode_hash(struct inode *, unsigned long hashval);
>  static inline void insert_inode_hash(struct inode *inode)

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