[PATCH 2/5] Add fchmodat4(), a new syscall

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Fri May 31 2019 - 15:27:38 EST


man 3p says that fchmodat() takes a flags argument, but the Linux
syscall does not. There doesn't appear to be a good userspace
workaround for this issue but the implementation in the kernel is pretty
straight-forward. The specific use case where the missing flags came up
was WRT a fuse filesystem implemenation, but the functionality is pretty
generic so I'm assuming there would be other use cases.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/open.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/syscalls.h | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index a00350018a47..cfad7684e8d3 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -568,11 +568,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fchmod, unsigned int, fd, umode_t, mode)
return ksys_fchmod(fd, mode);
}

-int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
+int do_fchmodat4(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode, int flags)
{
struct path path;
int error;
- unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+ unsigned int lookup_flags;
+
+ if (unlikely(flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ lookup_flags = flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW ? 0 : LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+
retry:
error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
if (!error) {
@@ -586,6 +592,17 @@ int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
return error;
}

+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(fchmodat4, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
+ umode_t, mode, int, flags)
+{
+ return do_fchmodat4(dfd, filename, mode, flags);
+}
+
+int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
+{
+ return do_fchmodat4(dfd, filename, mode, 0);
+}
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fchmodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
umode_t, mode)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 396871b218f4..cb040a412a4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -435,6 +435,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chroot(const char __user *filename);
asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int fd, umode_t mode);
asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
umode_t mode);
+asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat4(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+ umode_t mode, int flags);
asmlinkage long sys_fchownat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, uid_t user,
gid_t group, int flag);
asmlinkage long sys_fchown(unsigned int fd, uid_t user, gid_t group);
@@ -1315,6 +1317,9 @@ static inline long ksys_link(const char __user *oldname,

extern int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode);

+extern int do_fchmodat4(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode,
+ int flags);
+
static inline int ksys_chmod(const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
{
return do_fchmodat(AT_FDCWD, filename, mode);
--
2.21.0