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ext3: tighten restrictions on inode flags
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At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes.  Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links.  Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Duane Griffin authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 8, 2009
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8 changes: 2 additions & 6 deletions fs/ext3/ialloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -559,12 +559,8 @@ struct inode *ext3_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir, int mode)
ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0;
ei->i_disksize = 0;

ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED;
if (S_ISLNK(mode))
ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL);
/* dirsync only applies to directories */
if (!S_ISDIR(mode))
ei->i_flags &= ~EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
ei->i_flags =
ext3_mask_flags(mode, EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED);
#ifdef EXT3_FRAGMENTS
ei->i_faddr = 0;
ei->i_frag_no = 0;
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions fs/ext3/ioctl.c
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Expand Up @@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ int ext3_ioctl (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp, unsigned int cmd,
goto flags_out;
}

if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
flags &= ~EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
flags = ext3_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags);

mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
/* Is it quota file? Do not allow user to mess with it */
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17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/ext3_fs.h
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Expand Up @@ -185,6 +185,23 @@ struct ext3_group_desc
EXT3_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT3_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
EXT3_NOTAIL_FL | EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL)

/* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */
#define EXT3_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT3_TOPDIR_FL))

/* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */
#define EXT3_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT3_NODUMP_FL | EXT3_NOATIME_FL)

/* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */
static inline __u32 ext3_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags)
{
if (S_ISDIR(mode))
return flags;
else if (S_ISREG(mode))
return flags & EXT3_REG_FLMASK;
else
return flags & EXT3_OTHER_FLMASK;
}

/*
* Inode dynamic state flags
*/
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