[patch 1/4] vfs: utimes: move owner check into inode_change_ok()

[Miklos Szeredi]

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

Add a new ia_valid flag: ATTR_TIMES_SET, to handle the
UTIMES_OMIT/UTIMES_NOW and UTIMES_NOW/UTIMES_OMIT cases.  In these
cases neither ATTR_MTIME_SET nor ATTR_ATIME_SET is in the flags, yet
the POSIX draft specifies that permission checking is performed the
same way as if one or both of the times was explicitly set to a
timestamp.

See the path "vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for
{UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case" by Michael Kerrisk for the patch
introducing this behavior.

This is a cleanup, as well as allowing filesystems (NFS/fuse/...) to
perform their own permission checking instead of the default.

CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/attr.c          |    2 +-
 fs/utimes.c        |   17 ++++-------------
 include/linux/fs.h |   33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/attr.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/attr.c	2008-06-27 22:09:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/attr.c	2008-07-01 13:52:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ int inode_change_ok(struct inode *inode,
 	}
 
 	/* Check for setting the inode time. */
-	if (ia_valid & (ATTR_MTIME_SET | ATTR_ATIME_SET)) {
+	if (ia_valid & (ATTR_MTIME_SET | ATTR_ATIME_SET | ATTR_TIMES_SET)) {
 		if (!is_owner_or_cap(inode))
 			goto error;
 	}
Index: linux-2.6/fs/utimes.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/utimes.c	2008-07-01 08:10:12.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/utimes.c	2008-07-01 13:52:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil
 		     times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)
 		times = NULL;
 
-	/* In most cases, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */
 	newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME;
 	if (times) {
 		error = -EPERM;
@@ -123,21 +122,13 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil
 			newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_nsec = times[1].tv_nsec;
 			newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_MTIME_SET;
 		}
-
 		/*
-		 * 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().
+		 * Tell inode_change_ok(), that this is an explicit time
+		 * update, even if neither ATTR_ATIME_SET nor ATTR_MTIME_SET
+		 * were used.
 		 */
-		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;
+		newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_TIMES_SET;
 	} else {
-
 		/*
 		 * If times is NULL (or both times are UTIME_NOW),
 		 * then we need to check permissions, because
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2008-07-01 13:52:19.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h	2008-07-01 13:52:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -317,22 +317,23 @@ typedef void (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb
  * Attribute flags.  These should be or-ed together to figure out what
  * has been changed!
  */
-#define ATTR_MODE	1
-#define ATTR_UID	2
-#define ATTR_GID	4
-#define ATTR_SIZE	8
-#define ATTR_ATIME	16
-#define ATTR_MTIME	32
-#define ATTR_CTIME	64
-#define ATTR_ATIME_SET	128
-#define ATTR_MTIME_SET	256
-#define ATTR_FORCE	512	/* Not a change, but a change it */
-#define ATTR_ATTR_FLAG	1024
-#define ATTR_KILL_SUID	2048
-#define ATTR_KILL_SGID	4096
-#define ATTR_FILE	8192
-#define ATTR_KILL_PRIV	16384
-#define ATTR_OPEN	32768	/* Truncating from open(O_TRUNC) */
+#define ATTR_MODE	(1 << 0)
+#define ATTR_UID	(1 << 1)
+#define ATTR_GID	(1 << 2)
+#define ATTR_SIZE	(1 << 3)
+#define ATTR_ATIME	(1 << 4)
+#define ATTR_MTIME	(1 << 5)
+#define ATTR_CTIME	(1 << 6)
+#define ATTR_ATIME_SET	(1 << 7)
+#define ATTR_MTIME_SET	(1 << 8)
+#define ATTR_FORCE	(1 << 9) /* Not a change, but a change it */
+#define ATTR_ATTR_FLAG	(1 << 10)
+#define ATTR_KILL_SUID	(1 << 11)
+#define ATTR_KILL_SGID	(1 << 12)
+#define ATTR_FILE	(1 << 13)
+#define ATTR_KILL_PRIV	(1 << 14)
+#define ATTR_OPEN	(1 << 15) /* Truncating from open(O_TRUNC) */
+#define ATTR_TIMES_SET	(1 << 16)
 
 /*
  * This is the Inode Attributes structure, used for notify_change().  It

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