Thread (45 messages) 45 messages, 12 authors, 2023-07-28

Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] fs: Add fchmodat2()

From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-07-11 17:06:15
Also in: linux-alpha, linux-api, linux-arch, linux-fsdevel, linux-mips, linux-s390, linux-sh, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 06:16:04PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
On the userspace side fchmodat(3) is implemented as a wrapper
function which implements the POSIX-specified interface. This
interface differs from the underlying kernel system call, which does not
have a flags argument. Most implementations require procfs [1][2].

There doesn't appear to be a good userspace workaround for this issue
but the implementation in the kernel is pretty straight-forward.

The new fchmodat2() syscall allows to pass the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag,
unlike existing fchmodat.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35
[2] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28

Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 fs/open.c                | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 include/linux/syscalls.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 0c55c8e7f837..39a7939f0d00 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -671,11 +671,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fchmod, unsigned int, fd, umode_t, mode)
 	return err;
 }
 
-static int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
+static int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode, int lookup_flags)
Should all be unsigned instead of int here for flags. We also had a
documentation update to that effect but smh never sent it.
user_path_at() itself takes an unsigned as well.

I'll fix that up though.
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