Re: [PATCH] misbehaviour of ext2_notify_change

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 18:44:27 +0100 (GMT)


On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthias Riese wrote:

> Stumbled about this while updating ACL patch to 2.2.12:
> IMHO the flags in inode->u.ext2_i.i_flags arenīt
> exlusive, are they?

Ouch! Could this be used as a security flaw to remove immuatble flag? I
note I can "chattr +S immutable_file". That's probably a flaw in itself.
Luckily the immutable flag remains...

Cheers
Chris

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