Hello! Al, can you have a look at these fixes please? Thanks! Honza On Thu 18-12-14 13:49:01, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > warning in XFS made me look into detail into how clearing of suid / sgid > bits and security labels is done. And I've spotted a few issues: > 1) MS_NOSEC handling is broken - we set it after each file_remove_suid() call. > However we needn't have removed suid bit simply because we have > CAP_SYS_FSID and further writes to the file from processes without this > capability still need to clear the suid bit. > 2) file_remove_suid() is a misnomer since it also handles removing of > security labels. It is even more confusing because should_remove_suid() > doesn't return whether file_remove_suid() is needed or not. > 3) On truncate we do clear suid bits but not security labels. According to > documentation in include/linux/security.h that's a bug but please correct > me if I'm wrong. > 4) ocfs2 doesn't clear security labels - hard to fix, I left it alone for now. > 5) XFS didn't provide proper exclusion for clearing mode bits. > > This series aims at fixing above issues. > > Since v1 I have removed bogus patch changing inode_set_flags(), I have > updated changelog of patch 4/5 to better explain why ->inode_killpriv should > be called and I have included a fix for MS_NOSEC handling in this series. > Al, can you please merge the patches? Thanks! > > Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
