This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: add a vfs_fchown helper
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:
fs-add-a-vfs_fchown-helper.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 78f9b1f1aadf861c3aa7ae9649597a07f21808a1
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 14 08:47:43 2020 +0200
fs: add a vfs_fchown helper
[ Upstream commit c04011fe8cbd80af1be6e12b53193bf3846750d7 ]
Add a helper for struct file based chown 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 76996f920ebf5..e072e86003f56 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -707,23 +707,28 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lchown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
}
+int vfs_fchown(struct file *file, uid_t user, gid_t group)
+{
+ int error;
+
+ error = mnt_want_write_file(file);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ audit_file(file);
+ error = chown_common(&file->f_path, user, group);
+ mnt_drop_write_file(file);
+ return error;
+}
+
int ksys_fchown(unsigned int fd, uid_t user, gid_t group)
{
struct fd f = fdget(fd);
int error = -EBADF;
- if (!f.file)
- goto out;
-
- error = mnt_want_write_file(f.file);
- if (error)
- goto out_fput;
- audit_file(f.file);
- error = chown_common(&f.file->f_path, user, group);
- mnt_drop_write_file(f.file);
-out_fput:
- fdput(f);
-out:
+ if (f.file) {
+ error = vfs_fchown(f.file, user, group);
+ fdput(f);
+ }
return error;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index e2c87c056742c..7d93d22ad1062 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1660,6 +1660,8 @@ int vfs_mkobj(struct dentry *, umode_t,
int (*f)(struct dentry *, umode_t, void *),
void *);
+int vfs_fchown(struct file *file, uid_t user, gid_t group);
+
extern long vfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
/*
