The patch titled RAMFS NOMMU: missed POSIX UID/GID inode attribute checking has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ramfs-nommu-missed-posix-uid-gid-inode-attribute-checking.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: RAMFS NOMMU: missed POSIX UID/GID inode attribute checking From: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxx> This bug was caught by LTP testcase fchmod06 on Blackfin platform. In the manpage of fchmod, "EPERM: The effective UID does not match the owner of the file, and the process is not privileged (Linux: it does not have the CAP_FOWNER capability)." But the ramfs nommu code missed the inode_change_ok POSIX UID/GID verification. This patch fixed this. Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c~ramfs-nommu-missed-posix-uid-gid-inode-attribute-checking fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c --- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c~ramfs-nommu-missed-posix-uid-gid-inode-attribute-checking +++ a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c @@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ static int ramfs_nommu_setattr(struct de unsigned int old_ia_valid = ia->ia_valid; int ret = 0; + /* POSIX UID/GID verification for setting inode attributes */ + ret = inode_change_ok(inode, ia); + if (ret) + return ret; + /* by providing our own setattr() method, we skip this quotaism */ if ((old_ia_valid & ATTR_UID && ia->ia_uid != inode->i_uid) || (old_ia_valid & ATTR_GID && ia->ia_gid != inode->i_gid)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bryan.wu@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch lots-of-architectures-enable-arbitary-speed-tty-support.patch blackfin-on-chip-ethernet-mac-controller-driver.patch blackfin-enable-arbitary-speed-serial-setting.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html