The patch titled ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext4: tighten restrictions on inode flags From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set on non-regular file, non-directories. Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to facilitate future consistency. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 14 +++++--------- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ext4/ext4.h~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags fs/ext4/ext4.h --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags +++ a/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -247,6 +247,23 @@ struct flex_groups { EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL | EXT4_NOTAIL_FL|\ EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL) +/* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */ +#define EXT4_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_TOPDIR_FL)) + +/* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */ +#define EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL) + +/* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */ +static inline __u32 ext4_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags) +{ + if (S_ISDIR(mode)) + return flags; + else if (S_ISREG(mode)) + return flags & EXT4_REG_FLMASK; + else + return flags & EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK; +} + /* * Inode dynamic state flags */ diff -puN fs/ext4/ialloc.c~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags fs/ext4/ialloc.c --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags +++ a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -874,16 +874,12 @@ got: ei->i_disksize = 0; /* - * Don't inherit extent flag from directory. We set extent flag on - * newly created directory and file only if -o extent mount option is - * specified + * Don't inherit extent flag from directory, amongst others. We set + * extent flag on newly created directory and file only if -o extent + * mount option is specified */ - ei->i_flags = EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_FL_INHERITED; - if (S_ISLNK(mode)) - ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT4_APPEND_FL); - /* dirsync only applies to directories */ - if (!S_ISDIR(mode)) - ei->i_flags &= ~EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL; + ei->i_flags = + ext4_mask_flags(mode, EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_FL_INHERITED); ei->i_file_acl = 0; ei->i_dtime = 0; ei->i_block_group = group; diff -puN fs/ext4/ioctl.c~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags fs/ext4/ioctl.c --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c~ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags +++ a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsig if (err) return err; - if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) - flags &= ~EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL; + flags = ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags); err = -EPERM; mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from duaneg@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch ufs-validate-maximum-fast-symlink-size-from-superblock.patch ufs-dont-truncate-longer-ufs2-fast-symlinks.patch ufs-ensure-fast-symlinks-are-nul-terminated.patch ufs-copy-symlink-data-into-the-correct-union-member.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