Abort file_remove_privs() for non-reg. files
authorAlexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@tu-dortmund.de>
Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:55:52 +0000 (11:55 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 22 Jun 2019 06:17:24 +0000 (08:17 +0200)
commit77beb274790656702dbca6d1e698da522d56c069
tree453aa5762c43d127dbf7542e7654ec7b11c01dca
parent7219a58c57de1b5046154c2267ac70f9fcdee6f8
Abort file_remove_privs() for non-reg. files

commit f69e749a49353d96af1a293f56b5b56de59c668a upstream.

file_remove_privs() might be called for non-regular files, e.g.
blkdev inode. There is no reason to do its job on things
like blkdev inodes, pipes, or cdevs. Hence, abort if
file does not refer to a regular inode.

AV: more to the point, for devices there might be any number of
inodes refering to given device.  Which one to strip the permissions
from, even if that made any sense in the first place?  All of them
will be observed with contents modified, after all.

Found by LockDoc (Alexander Lochmann, Horst Schirmeier and Olaf
Spinczyk)

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lochmann <alexander.lochmann@tu-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst.schirmeier@tu-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Zubin Mithra <zsm@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/inode.c