Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 06:36:00PM +0000, Varsha Teratipally wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> XFS always inherits the SGID bit if it is set on the parent inode, while
> the generic inode_init_owner does not do this in a few cases where it can
> create a possible security problem, see commit 0fa3ecd87848
> ("Fix up non-directory creation in SGID directories") for details.
> 
> Switch XFS to use the generic helper for the normal path to fix this,
> just keeping the simple field inheritance open coded for the case of the
> non-sgid case with the bsdgrpid mount option.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Why did you not sign off on this if you are forwarding it on?

Also, what is the git id of this commit in Linus's tree (we need that
hint...)

Please fix both up and resend and get the ack of the stable xfs
developers on it as well.

thanks,

greg k-h