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Ernesto A. Fernández 397e434176 ext4: preserve i_mode if __ext4_set_acl() fails
When changing a file's acl mask, __ext4_set_acl() will first set the group
bits of i_mode to the value of the mask, and only then set the actual
extended attribute representing the new acl.

If the second part fails (due to lack of space, for example) and the file
had no acl attribute to begin with, the system will from now on assume
that the mask permission bits are actual group permission bits, potentially
granting access to the wrong users.

Prevent this by only changing the inode mode after the acl has been set.

Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández <ernesto.mnd.fernandez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-07-30 22:43:41 -04:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-28 12:31:49 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-30 12:19:35 -07:00
block blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
drivers DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs ext4: preserve i_mode if __ext4_set_acl() fails 2017-07-30 22:43:41 -04:00
include ext4: remove unused metadata accounting variables 2017-07-30 22:30:11 -04:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-30 11:54:08 -07:00
lib uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test 2017-07-21 09:38:30 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc3 2017-07-27 10:44:28 -07:00
tools tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: make pid available for uevents without debugfs 2017-07-26 18:57:44 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file 2017-07-23 16:06:21 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc3 2017-07-30 12:40:36 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.