[PATCH -V5 08/24] vfs: Add delete child and delete self permission flags

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 08:53:34 EST


From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>

Normally, deleting a file requires write access to the parent directory.
Some permission models use a different permission on the parent
directory to indicate delete access. In addition, a process can have
per-file delete access even without delete access on the parent
directory.

Introduce two new inode_permission() mask flags and use them in
may_delete()

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b4f7198..1b6dbc9 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, unsigned int flags,
* are used for other things.
*
* When checking for MAY_APPEND, MAY_CREATE_FILE, MAY_CREATE_DIR,
- * MAY_WRITE must also be set in @mask.
+ * MAY_DELETE_CHILD, MAY_DELETE_SELF, MAY_WRITE must also be set in @mask.
*/
int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
{
@@ -1944,7 +1944,7 @@ static inline int check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode)
return 0;
if (dir->i_uid == fsuid)
return 0;
- return !capable(CAP_FOWNER);
+ return 1;
}

/*
@@ -1966,30 +1966,42 @@ static inline int check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode)
* 10. We don't allow removal of NFS sillyrenamed files; it's handled by
* nfs_async_unlink().
*/
-static int may_delete(struct inode *dir,struct dentry *victim,int isdir)
+static int may_delete(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *victim,
+ int isdir, int replace)
{
- int error;
+ int mask, error, is_sticky;
+ struct inode *inode = victim->d_inode;

- if (!victim->d_inode)
+ if (!inode)
return -ENOENT;

BUG_ON(victim->d_parent->d_inode != dir);
audit_inode_child(victim, dir);

- error = inode_permission(dir, MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC);
+ mask = MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC | MAY_DELETE_CHILD;
+ if (replace)
+ mask |= S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ?
+ MAY_CREATE_DIR : MAY_CREATE_FILE;
+ is_sticky = check_sticky(dir, inode);
+ error = inode_permission(dir, mask);
+ if ((error || is_sticky) && IS_RICHACL(inode) &&
+ !inode_permission(dir, mask & ~(MAY_WRITE | MAY_DELETE_CHILD)) &&
+ !inode_permission(inode, MAY_DELETE_SELF))
+ error = 0;
+ else if (!error && is_sticky && !capable(CAP_FOWNER))
+ error = -EPERM;
if (error)
return error;
if (IS_APPEND(dir))
return -EPERM;
- if (check_sticky(dir, victim->d_inode)||IS_APPEND(victim->d_inode)||
- IS_IMMUTABLE(victim->d_inode) || IS_SWAPFILE(victim->d_inode))
+ if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
return -EPERM;
if (isdir) {
- if (!S_ISDIR(victim->d_inode->i_mode))
+ if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -ENOTDIR;
if (IS_ROOT(victim))
return -EBUSY;
- } else if (S_ISDIR(victim->d_inode->i_mode))
+ } else if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -EISDIR;
if (IS_DEADDIR(dir))
return -ENOENT;
@@ -2824,7 +2836,7 @@ void dentry_unhash(struct dentry *dentry)

int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
- int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 1);
+ int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 1, 0);

if (error)
return error;
@@ -2911,7 +2923,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rmdir, const char __user *, pathname)

int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
- int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 0);
+ int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 0, 0);

if (error)
return error;
@@ -3304,14 +3316,14 @@ int vfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
if (old_dentry->d_inode == new_dentry->d_inode)
return 0;

- error = may_delete(old_dir, old_dentry, is_dir);
+ error = may_delete(old_dir, old_dentry, is_dir, 0);
if (error)
return error;

if (!new_dentry->d_inode)
error = may_create(new_dir, new_dentry, is_dir);
else
- error = may_delete(new_dir, new_dentry, is_dir);
+ error = may_delete(new_dir, new_dentry, is_dir, 1);
if (error)
return error;

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a86afc0..6a6e017 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define MAY_CHDIR 64
#define MAY_CREATE_FILE 128
#define MAY_CREATE_DIR 256
+#define MAY_DELETE_CHILD 512
+#define MAY_DELETE_SELF 1024

/*
* flags in file.f_mode. Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond
--
1.7.1

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