On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:28:09PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently, notify_change() clears capabilities or IMA attributes by > calling security_inode_killpriv() before calling into ->setattr. Thus it > happens before any other permission checks in inode_change_ok() and user > is thus allowed to trigger clearing of capabilities or IMA attributes > for any file he can look up e.g. by calling chown for that file. This is > unexpected and can lead to user DoSing a system. > > Fix the problem by calling security_inode_killpriv() at the end of > inode_change_ok() instead of from notify_change(). At that moment we are > sure user has permissions to do the requested change. Looks fine, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
