linux.git/fs/open.c, branch v3.1

merge fchmod() and fchmodat() guts, kill ancient broken kludge

2011-07-26T19:07:43+00:00

The kludge in question is undocumented and doesn't work for 32bit
binaries on amd64, sparc64 and s390.  Passing (mode_t)-1 as
mode had (since 0.99.14v and contrary to behaviour of any
other Unix, prescriptions of POSIX, SuS and our own manpages)
was kinda-sorta no-op.  Note that any software relying on
that (and looking for examples shows none) would be visibly
broken on sparc64, where practically all userland is built
32bit.  No such complaints noticed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp

2011-07-22T23:42:13+00:00

Replace unclear (struct dentry *) to (struct file *) typecast with ERR_CAST() macro.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Use BUG_ON(!mnt) at dentry_open().

2011-03-21T05:10:41+00:00

dentry_open() requires callers to pass a valid vfsmount.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

2011-03-16T16:15:43+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (33 commits)
  AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c
  AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly
  KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE
  KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code
  KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted
  KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro
  AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read
  SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook
  LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM
  SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket
  SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute
  SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class
  TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open.
  Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"
  selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions
  selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting
  selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer
  selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm
  ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure
  IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking
  ...

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

2011-03-15T22:41:17+00:00

readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames

2011-03-15T06:21:45+00:00

For readlinkat() we simply allow empty pathname; it will fail unless
we have dfd equal to O_PATH-opened symlink, so we are outside of
POSIX scope here.  For fchownat() and fstatat() we allow AT_EMPTY_PATH;
let the caller explicitly ask for such behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

New kind of open files - "location only".

2011-03-15T06:21:45+00:00

New flag for open(2) - O_PATH.  Semantics:
	* pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened
as far as filesystem is concerned.
	* almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall
fail with -EBADF.  Exceptions are:
	1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e.
		close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...))
	2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to
		check if descriptor is open
	3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting
		points of pathname resolution
	* closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or
posix locks.
	* permissions are checked as usual along the way to file;
no permission checks are applied to the file itself.  Of course,
giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at
the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is
a directory and caller has exec permissions on it).

fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of
fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them.  That protects
existing code from dealing with those things.

There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits):
one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that
way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another
is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

open-style analog of vfs_path_lookup()

2011-03-14T13:15:28+00:00

new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file
vfs_path_lookup would arrive to.

Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that
dentry should be a directory is lifted.

open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly
one caller and became static.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch do_filp_open() to struct open_flags

2011-03-14T13:15:25+00:00

take calculation of open_flags by open(2) arguments into new helper
in fs/open.c, move filp_open() over there, have it and do_sys_open()
use that helper, switch exec.c callers of do_filp_open() to explicit
(and constant) struct open_flags.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Check for immutable/append flag in fallocate path

2011-03-10T09:22:15+00:00

In the fallocate path the kernel doesn't check for the immutable/append
flag. It's possible to have a race condition in this scenario: an
application open a file in read/write and it does something, meanwhile
root set the immutable flag on the file, the application at that point
can call fallocate with success. In addition, we don't allow to do any
unreserve operation on an append only file but only the reserve one.

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro