[PATCH 1/2] vfs: implement fchmodat2() syscall

[Greg Kurz]

According to the POSIX.1-2008 manual page [1], the fchmodat() function has
a flag argument which may be passed the following value:

AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
    If path names a symbolic link, then the mode of the symbolic link is
    changed.

and the following error may be returned:

[EOPNOTSUPP]
    The AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW bit is set in the flag argument, path names a
    symbolic link, and the system does not support changing the mode of a
    symbolic link.

The linux kernel doesn't support changing the mode of a symbolic link, but
the current implementation doesn't even have a flag argument. It is then
up to userspace to deal with that. Unfortunately, it is impossible to
implement the POSIX behavior in a race-free manner.

This patch introduces a new fchmodat2() syscall with a flag argument to
address the issue.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/chmod.html

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@xxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/open.c                         |   23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 include/linux/syscalls.h          |    2 ++
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h |    4 +++-
 scripts/checksyscalls.sh          |    3 ++-
 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 9921f70bc5ca..66a8c19f72ca 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -558,24 +558,39 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fchmod, unsigned int, fd, umode_t, mode)
 	return err;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fchmodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fchmodat2, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t,
+		mode, int, flag)
 {
 	struct path path;
-	int error;
-	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+	int error = -EINVAL;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags;
+
+	if ((flag & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) != 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	lookup_flags = (flag & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) ? 0 : LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
 retry:
 	error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
 	if (!error) {
-		error = chmod_common(&path, mode);
+		error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		if (!d_is_symlink(path.dentry))
+			error = chmod_common(&path, mode);
 		path_put(&path);
 		if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
 			lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
 			goto retry;
 		}
 	}
+out:
 	return error;
 }
 
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fchmodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t,
+		mode)
+{
+	return sys_fchmodat2(dfd, filename, mode, 0);
+}
+
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(chmod, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode)
 {
 	return sys_fchmodat(AT_FDCWD, filename, mode);
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 91a740f6b884..982089d55b31 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -775,6 +775,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_futimesat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
 asmlinkage long sys_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode);
 asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user * filename,
 			     umode_t mode);
+asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat2(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+			      umode_t mode, int flag);
 asmlinkage long sys_fchownat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, uid_t user,
 			     gid_t group, int flag);
 asmlinkage long sys_openat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
index 9b1462e38b82..e8b0a00908b1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -730,9 +730,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_mprotect, sys_pkey_mprotect)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_alloc,    sys_pkey_alloc)
 #define __NR_pkey_free 290
 __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_free,     sys_pkey_free)
+#define __NR_fchmodat2 291
+__SYSCALL(__NR_fchmodat2,     sys_fchmodat2)
 
 #undef __NR_syscalls
-#define __NR_syscalls 291
+#define __NR_syscalls 292
 
 /*
  * All syscalls below here should go away really,
diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
index 2c9082ba6137..2e7471a1d308 100755
--- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
+++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ cat << EOF
 #define __IGNORE_link		/* linkat */
 #define __IGNORE_unlink		/* unlinkat */
 #define __IGNORE_mknod		/* mknodat */
-#define __IGNORE_chmod		/* fchmodat */
+#define __IGNORE_chmod		/* fchmodat2 */
 #define __IGNORE_chown		/* fchownat */
 #define __IGNORE_mkdir		/* mkdirat */
 #define __IGNORE_rmdir		/* unlinkat */
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ cat << EOF
 
 /* Missing flags argument */
 #define __IGNORE_renameat	/* renameat2 */
+#define __IGNORE_fchmodat	/* fchmodat2 */
 
 /* CLOEXEC flag */
 #define __IGNORE_pipe		/* pipe2 */