From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:01:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags() X-Git-Tag: v3.2.29~64 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8dd138a98241fc7be5d89950e6e09bbc18024a53;p=pandora-kernel.git vfs: canonicalize create mode in build_open_flags() commit e68726ff72cf7ba5e7d789857fcd9a75ca573f03 upstream. Userspace can pass weird create mode in open(2) that we canonicalize to "(mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG" in vfs_create(). The problem is that we use the uncanonicalized mode before calling vfs_create() with unforseen consequences. So do the canonicalization early in build_open_flags(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed