[PATCH 3/6][TAKE7] revalidate write permissions for fallocate

From: Amit K. Arora
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 08:48:44 EST


From: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has
changed since the files were opened.

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/open.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.22/fs/open.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/fs/open.c
+++ linux-2.6.22/fs/open.c
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, in
goto out;
if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
goto out_fput;
+ ret = security_file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out_fput;

inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;

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