On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:43:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Weston Andros Adamson <[email protected]> > > commit 6168f62cbde8dcf4f58255794efbcdb8df603959 upstream. > > The OPEN operation has no way to differentiate an open for read and an > open for execution - both look like read to the server. This allowed > users to read files that didn't have READ access but did have EXEC access, > which is obviously wrong. > > This patch adds an ACCESS call to the OPEN compound to handle the > difference between OPENs for reading and execution. Since we're going > through the trouble of calling ACCESS, we check all possible access bits > and cache the results hopefully avoiding an ACCESS call in the future. > > Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> > [bwh: Backported to 3.2: > - Adjust context > - #include <linux/export.h> in fs/nfs/dir.c] > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
This 3.2 series lacks commit ae2bb03236fc978bdf673c19d39832500793b83c pointed in its changelog as fixing a regression from this one. -- []'s Herton -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
