This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: add a vfs_fchmod helper to the 5.4-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: fs-add-a-vfs_fchmod-helper.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cd037b408d89ea602547e0e2141d3189afd71fa0 Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 14 08:55:05 2020 +0200 fs: add a vfs_fchmod helper [ Upstream commit 9e96c8c0e94eea2f69a9705f5d0f51928ea26c17 ] Add a helper for struct file based chmode operations. To be used by the initramfs code soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 4624b346cf67 ("init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 9213c15d8a8d6..484b300f3e026 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -570,14 +570,19 @@ static int chmod_common(const struct path *path, umode_t mode) return error; } +int vfs_fchmod(struct file *file, umode_t mode) +{ + audit_file(file); + return chmod_common(&file->f_path, mode); +} + int ksys_fchmod(unsigned int fd, umode_t mode) { struct fd f = fdget(fd); int err = -EBADF; if (f.file) { - audit_file(f.file); - err = chmod_common(&f.file->f_path, mode); + err = vfs_fchmod(f.file, mode); fdput(f); } return err; diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 03de5c7134564..5e122cb506d6e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ int vfs_mkobj(struct dentry *, umode_t, void *); int vfs_fchown(struct file *file, uid_t user, gid_t group); +int vfs_fchmod(struct file *file, umode_t mode); extern long vfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);