[PATCH 5/6] ext3: tighten restrictions on inode flags

[Duane Griffin]

At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes. Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links. Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be
set on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext3/ialloc.c        |    8 ++------
 fs/ext3/ioctl.c         |    3 +--
 include/linux/ext3_fs.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
index 33a6bdf..48699ce 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
@@ -559,12 +559,8 @@ got:
 	ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0;
 	ei->i_disksize = 0;
 
-	ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED;
-	if (S_ISLNK(mode))
-		ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL);
-	/* dirsync only applies to directories */
-	if (!S_ISDIR(mode))
-		ei->i_flags &= ~EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
+	ei->i_flags =
+		ext3_mask_flags(mode, EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED);
 #ifdef EXT3_FRAGMENTS
 	ei->i_faddr = 0;
 	ei->i_frag_no = 0;
diff --git a/fs/ext3/ioctl.c b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
index b7394d0..5e86ce9 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ int ext3_ioctl (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp, unsigned int cmd,
 			goto flags_out;
 		}
 
-		if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-			flags &= ~EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
+		flags = ext3_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags);
 
 		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 		/* Is it quota file? Do not allow user to mess with it */
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index 0bcd1b5..dd495b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -185,6 +185,23 @@ struct ext3_group_desc
 			   EXT3_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT3_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
 			   EXT3_NOTAIL_FL | EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL)
 
+/* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */
+#define EXT3_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT3_TOPDIR_FL))
+
+/* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */
+#define EXT3_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT3_NODUMP_FL | EXT3_NOATIME_FL)
+
+/* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */
+static inline __u32 ext3_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags)
+{
+	if (S_ISDIR(mode))
+		return flags;
+	else if (S_ISREG(mode))
+		return flags & EXT3_REG_FLMASK;
+	else
+		return flags & EXT3_OTHER_FLMASK;
+}
+
 /*
  * Inode dynamic state flags
  */
-- 
1.5.6.4

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