This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smack: Set SMACK64TRANSMUTE only for dirs in smack_inode_setxattr() to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: smack-set-smack64transmute-only-for-dirs-in-smack_in.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9ff6961c77f4e1814ce5a4fa70c000245030c8e2 Author: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 16 10:01:21 2023 +0100 smack: Set SMACK64TRANSMUTE only for dirs in smack_inode_setxattr() [ Upstream commit 9c82169208dde516510aaba6bbd8b13976690c5d ] Since the SMACK64TRANSMUTE xattr makes sense only for directories, enforce this restriction in smack_inode_setxattr(). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 5c6d1125f8db ("Smack: Transmute labels on specified directories") # v2.6.38.x Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 128a5f464740e..2f2dc49f53dff 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -1341,7 +1341,8 @@ static int smack_inode_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, check_star = 1; } else if (strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_SMACKTRANSMUTE) == 0) { check_priv = 1; - if (size != TRANS_TRUE_SIZE || + if (!S_ISDIR(d_backing_inode(dentry)->i_mode) || + size != TRANS_TRUE_SIZE || strncmp(value, TRANS_TRUE, TRANS_TRUE_SIZE) != 0) rc = -EINVAL; } else