Re: [PATCH v9] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing

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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:36:57PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
>> Hm, this didn't end up getting picked up. (This jumped out at me again
>> because i_mutex just vanished...)
>>
>> Al, what's the right way to update the locking in this patch?
>
> ->i_mutex is dealt with just by using lock_inode(inode)/unlock_inode(inode);
> I hadn't looked at the rest of the locking in there.

Ping?

If this is too messy, I'm wondering if we could get away with a much
simpler approach: clear the suid and sgid bits when the file is opened
for write.

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