[PATCH v3] fs: introduce getfsxattrat and setfsxattrat syscalls

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Sat Feb 22 11:33:59 AEDT 2025


On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net> wrote:
>
> It looks security checks are missing.  With IOCTL commands, file
> permissions are checked at open time, but with these syscalls the path
> is only resolved but no specific access seems to be checked (except
> inode_owner_or_capable via vfs_fileattr_set).

Thanks for reviewing the patch and catching this Mickaël.  I agree
with the hooks identified and their placement; it should be fairly
straightforward with only a few lines added in each case.

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