[PATCH 4.4 057/162] tracefs: Have tracefs directories not set OTH permission bits by default

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 24 2021 - 07:06:48 EST


From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 49d67e445742bbcb03106b735b2ab39f6e5c56bc ]

The tracefs file system is by default mounted such that only root user can
access it. But there are legitimate reasons to create a group and allow
those added to the group to have access to tracing. By changing the
permissions of the tracefs mount point to allow access, it will allow
group access to the tracefs directory.

There should not be any real reason to allow all access to the tracefs
directory as it contains sensitive information. Have the default
permission of directories being created not have any OTH (other) bits set,
such that an admin that wants to give permission to a group has to first
disable all OTH bits in the file system.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818153038.664127804@xxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/inode.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index c66f2423e1f5c..6ccfd47157d37 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -429,7 +429,8 @@ static struct dentry *__create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
if (unlikely(!inode))
return failed_creating(dentry);

- inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
+ /* Do not set bits for OTH */
+ inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUSR| S_IRGRP | S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP;
inode->i_op = ops;
inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;

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2.33.0