This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: add capability check to free eofblocks ioctl to the 3.10-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: xfs-add-capability-check-to-free-eofblocks-ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8c567a7fab6e086a0284eee2db82348521e7120c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:08:03 -0400 Subject: xfs: add capability check to free eofblocks ioctl From: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8c567a7fab6e086a0284eee2db82348521e7120c upstream. Check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN since the caller can truncate preallocated blocks from files they do not own nor have write access to. A more fine grained access check was considered: require the caller to specify their own uid/gid and to use inode_permission to check for write, but this would not catch the case of an inode not reachable via path traversal from the callers mount namespace. Add check for read-only filesystem to free eofblocks ioctl. Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -1612,6 +1612,12 @@ xfs_file_ioctl( case XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS: { struct xfs_eofblocks eofb; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + + if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY) + return -XFS_ERROR(EROFS); + if (copy_from_user(&eofb, arg, sizeof(eofb))) return -XFS_ERROR(EFAULT); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/xfs-add-capability-check-to-free-eofblocks-ioctl.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html