[patch 4/4] vfs: immutable inode checking cleanup

Move the immutable and append-only checks from chmod, chown and utimes into notify_change(). Checks for immutable and append-only files are always performed by the VFS and not by the filesystem (see permission() and may_...() in namei.c), so these belong in notify_change(), and not in inode_change_ok(). This should be completely equivalent. CC: Ulrich Drepper <[email protected]> CC: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
kyagi · Jul 27, 2008 · beb29e0 · beb29e0
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diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
 	struct timespec now;
 	unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid;
 
+	if (ia_valid & (ATTR_MODE | ATTR_UID | ATTR_GID | ATTR_TIMES_SET)) {
+		if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
+			return -EPERM;
+	}
+
 	now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
 
 	attr->ia_ctime = now;

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
@@ -588,18 +588,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int fd, mode_t mode)
 	err = mnt_want_write(file->f_path.mnt);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_putf;
-	err = -EPERM;
-	if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
-		goto out_drop_write;
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (mode == (mode_t) -1)
 		mode = inode->i_mode;
 	newattrs.ia_mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | (inode->i_mode & ~S_IALLUGO);
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE | ATTR_CTIME;
 	err = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-out_drop_write:
 	mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
 out_putf:
 	fput(file);
@@ -623,20 +618,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
 	error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt);
 	if (error)
 		goto dput_and_out;
-
-	error = -EPERM;
-	if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
-		goto out_drop_write;
-
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (mode == (mode_t) -1)
 		mode = inode->i_mode;
 	newattrs.ia_mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | (inode->i_mode & ~S_IALLUGO);
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE | ATTR_CTIME;
 	error = notify_change(nd.path.dentry, &newattrs);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-out_drop_write:
 	mnt_drop_write(nd.path.mnt);
 dput_and_out:
 	path_put(&nd.path);
@@ -651,18 +639,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chmod(const char __user *filename, mode_t mode)
 
 static int chown_common(struct dentry * dentry, uid_t user, gid_t group)
 {
-	struct inode * inode;
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	int error;
 	struct iattr newattrs;
 
-	error = -ENOENT;
-	if (!(inode = dentry->d_inode)) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "chown_common: NULL inode\n");
-		goto out;
-	}
-	error = -EPERM;
-	if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
-		goto out;
 	newattrs.ia_valid =  ATTR_CTIME;
 	if (user != (uid_t) -1) {
 		newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_UID;
@@ -678,7 +658,7 @@ static int chown_common(struct dentry * dentry, uid_t user, gid_t group)
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-out:
+
 	return error;
 }
 

diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -64,10 +64,6 @@ static int utimes_common(struct path *path, struct timespec *times)
 
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME;
 	if (times) {
-		error = -EPERM;
-                if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
-			goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
-
 		if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT)
 			newattrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_ATIME;
 		else if (times[0].tv_nsec != UTIME_NOW) {