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authorEric Rannaud <e@nanocritical.com>2014-10-30 01:51:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-30 15:50:13 -0700
commit69a91c237ab0ebe4e9fdeaf6d0090c85275594ec (patch)
treec58cccb654590f7b03f0ca982a44498e76004514
parent3a2f22b7d0cc64482a91529e23c2570aa0602fa6 (diff)
fs: allow open(dir, O_TMPFILE|..., 0) with mode 0
The man page for open(2) indicates that when O_CREAT is specified, the 'mode' argument applies only to future accesses to the file: Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the newly created file; the open() call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write file descriptor. The man page for open(2) implies that 'mode' is treated identically by O_CREAT and O_TMPFILE. O_TMPFILE, however, behaves differently: int fd = open("/tmp", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, 0); assert(fd == -1); assert(errno == EACCES); int fd = open("/tmp", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, 0600); assert(fd > 0); For O_CREAT, do_last() sets acc_mode to MAY_OPEN only: if (*opened & FILE_CREATED) { /* Don't check for write permission, don't truncate */ open_flag &= ~O_TRUNC; will_truncate = false; acc_mode = MAY_OPEN; path_to_nameidata(path, nd); goto finish_open_created; } But for O_TMPFILE, do_tmpfile() passes the full op->acc_mode to may_open(). This patch lines up the behavior of O_TMPFILE with O_CREAT. After the inode is created, may_open() is called with acc_mode = MAY_OPEN, in do_tmpfile(). A different, but related glibc bug revealed the discrepancy: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17523 The glibc lazily loads the 'mode' argument of open() and openat() using va_arg() only if O_CREAT is present in 'flags' (to support both the 2 argument and the 3 argument forms of open; same idea for openat()). However, the glibc ignores the 'mode' argument if O_TMPFILE is in 'flags'. On x86_64, for open(), it magically works anyway, as 'mode' is in RDX when entering open(), and is still in RDX on SYSCALL, which is where the kernel looks for the 3rd argument of a syscall. But openat() is not quite so lucky: 'mode' is in RCX when entering the glibc wrapper for openat(), while the kernel looks for the 4th argument of a syscall in R10. Indeed, the syscall calling convention differs from the regular calling convention in this respect on x86_64. So the kernel sees mode = 0 when trying to use glibc openat() with O_TMPFILE, and fails with EACCES. Signed-off-by: Eric Rannaud <e@nanocritical.com> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 42df664e95e5..78512898d3ba 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3154,7 +3154,8 @@ static int do_tmpfile(int dfd, struct filename *pathname,
if (error)
goto out2;
audit_inode(pathname, nd->path.dentry, 0);
- error = may_open(&nd->path, op->acc_mode, op->open_flag);
+ /* Don't check for other permissions, the inode was just created */
+ error = may_open(&nd->path, MAY_OPEN, op->open_flag);
if (error)
goto out2;
file->f_path.mnt = nd->path.mnt;