This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled afs: Adjust mode bits processing to the 4.9-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: afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017 From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:44 +0000 Subject: afs: Adjust mode bits processing From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 627f46943ff90bcc32ddeb675d881c043c6fa2ae ] Mode bits for an afs file should not be enforced in the usual way. For files, the absence of user bits can restrict file access with respect to what is granted by the server. These bits apply regardless of the owner or the current uid; the rest of the mode bits (group, other) are ignored. Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/afs/security.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/afs/security.c +++ b/fs/afs/security.c @@ -340,17 +340,22 @@ int afs_permission(struct inode *inode, } else { if (!(access & AFS_ACE_LOOKUP)) goto permission_denied; + if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && !(inode->i_mode & S_IXUSR)) + goto permission_denied; if (mask & (MAY_EXEC | MAY_READ)) { if (!(access & AFS_ACE_READ)) goto permission_denied; + if (!(inode->i_mode & S_IRUSR)) + goto permission_denied; } else if (mask & MAY_WRITE) { if (!(access & AFS_ACE_WRITE)) goto permission_denied; + if (!(inode->i_mode & S_IWUSR)) + goto permission_denied; } } key_put(key); - ret = generic_permission(inode, mask); _leave(" = %d", ret); return ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch queue-4.9/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch queue-4.9/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch queue-4.9/afs-deal-with-an-empty-callback-array.patch