From 4cca92264e61a90b43fc4e076cd25b7f4e16dc61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 21:16:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [patch for 2.6.26 3/4] vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for {UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says: Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the user ID of the file or with appropriate privileges may use futimens() or utimensat() with a non-null times argument that does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_NOW and does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_OMIT. If this condition is violated, then the error EPERM should result. However, the current implementation does not generate EPERM if one tv_nsec field is UTIME_NOW while the other is UTIME_OMIT. It should give this error for that case. This patch: a) Repairs that problem. b) Removes the now unneeded nsec_special() helper function. c) Adds some comments to explain the checks that are being performed. Thanks to Miklos, who provided comments on the previous iteration of this patch. As a result, this version is a little simpler and and its logic is better structured. Miklos suggested an alternative idea, migrating the is_owner_or_cap() checks into fs/attr.c:inode_change_ok() via the use of an ATTR_OWNER_CHECK flag. Maybe we could do that later, but for now I've gone with this version, which is IMO simpler, and can be more easily read as being correct. Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/utimes.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c index d466bc587e6e..118d1c3241be 100644 --- a/fs/utimes.c +++ b/fs/utimes.c @@ -40,14 +40,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_utime(char __user *filename, struct utimbuf __user *times) #endif -static bool nsec_special(long nsec) -{ - return nsec == UTIME_OMIT || nsec == UTIME_NOW; -} - static bool nsec_valid(long nsec) { - if (nsec_special(nsec)) + if (nsec == UTIME_OMIT || nsec == UTIME_NOW) return true; return nsec >= 0 && nsec <= 999999999; @@ -106,7 +101,7 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW) times = NULL; - /* Don't worry, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */ + /* In most cases, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */ newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME; if (times) { error = -EPERM; @@ -128,15 +123,26 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_nsec = times[1].tv_nsec; newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_MTIME_SET; } - } - /* - * If times is NULL or both times are either UTIME_OMIT or - * UTIME_NOW, then need to check permissions, because - * inode_change_ok() won't do it. - */ - if (!times || (nsec_special(times[0].tv_nsec) && - nsec_special(times[1].tv_nsec))) { + /* + * For the UTIME_OMIT/UTIME_NOW and UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT + * cases, we need to make an extra check that is not done by + * inode_change_ok(). + */ + if (((times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW && + times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT) + || + (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT && + times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)) + && !is_owner_or_cap(inode)) + goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; + } else { + + /* + * If times is NULL (or both times are UTIME_NOW), + * then we need to check permissions, because + * inode_change_ok() won't do it. + */ error = -EACCES; if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;