[patch] fuse: fix permission checking

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 05:24:04 EST


This is for 2.6.25 and 2.6.24.y, but NOT for 2.6.23.y.

Thanks,
Miklos
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

I added a nasty local variable shadowing bug to fuse in 2.6.24, with
the result, that the 'default_permissions' mount option is basically
ignored.

How did this happen?

- old err declaration in inner scope
- new err getting declared in outer scope
- 'return err' from inner scope getting removed
- old declaration not being noticed

-Wshadow would have saved us, but it doesn't seem practical for
the kernel :(

More testing would have also saved us :((

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
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Index: linux/fs/fuse/dir.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/fuse/dir.c 2008-02-15 10:46:06.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/fuse/dir.c 2008-02-15 11:05:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode
}

if (fc->flags & FUSE_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS) {
- int err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
+ err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);

/* If permission is denied, try to refresh file
attributes. This is also needed, because the root
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