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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-07-16 09:51:03 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-07-26 20:53:19 -0400
commit8bb79224b87aab92071e94d46e70bd160d89bf34 (patch)
treedab47cbb434876e5916f18b738ef8bd3fe1e1ce1 /fs/open.c
parentdb2e747b14991a4c6a5c98b0e5f552a193237c03 (diff)
downloadlinux-8bb79224b87aab92071e94d46e70bd160d89bf34.tar.bz2
[PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last step
... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution. LOOKUP_CHDIR is killed by that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index b2e4c93aed03..8e02d42bfe44 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -501,12 +501,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chdir(const char __user * filename)
struct nameidata nd;
int error;
- error = __user_walk(filename,
- LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY|LOOKUP_CHDIR, &nd);
+ error = __user_walk(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, &nd);
if (error)
goto out;
- error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC);
+ error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR);
if (error)
goto dput_and_out;