generic_permission: MAY_OPEN is not write access
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:50:19 +0000 (14:50 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 6 Jan 2010 23:17:18 +0000 (15:17 -0800)
commit5289cdcc9189f993d8f875676f68bd85f00c8092
tree2848e32679fec1877953382203b60e886268ca74
parent43e1e809a5b7f9bdc65cfd0bdf45675dc7d40fb4
generic_permission: MAY_OPEN is not write access

commit 7ea6600148c265b1fd53e521022b1d7aec81d974 upstream.

generic_permission was refusing CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH-enabled
processes from opening DAC-protected files read-only, because
do_filp_open adds MAY_OPEN to the open mask.

Ignore MAY_OPEN.  After this patch, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is
again sufficient to open(fname, O_RDONLY) on a file to which
DAC otherwise refuses us read permission.

Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/namei.c