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Remove redundant check from proc_sys_setattr()

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notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.

Alan sayeth

  This is a behaviour change on all of these and limits some behaviour of
  existing established security modules

  When inode_change_ok is called it has side effects.  This includes
  clearing the SGID bit on attribute changes caused by chmod.  If you make
  this change the results of some rulesets may be different before or after
  the change is made.

  I'm not saying the change is wrong but it does change behaviour so that
  needs looking at closely (ditto all other attribute twiddles)

Signed-off-by: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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John Johansen 2007-05-08 00:29:44 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1e8123fded
commit 9d0633cfed
1 changed files with 2 additions and 5 deletions
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fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
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@ -429,11 +429,8 @@ static int proc_sys_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
return -EPERM;
error = inode_change_ok(inode, attr);
if (!error) {
error = security_inode_setattr(dentry, attr);
if (!error)
error = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
}
if (!error)
error = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
return error;
}