Commit 9fe79d7600497ed8a95c3981cbe5b73ab98222f0

Authored by Tyler Hicks
1 parent ff826b2b5b

eCryptfs: Properly check for O_RDONLY flag before doing privileged open

If the first attempt at opening the lower file read/write fails,
eCryptfs will retry using a privileged kthread. However, the privileged
retry should not happen if the lower file's inode is read-only because a
read/write open will still be unsuccessful.

The check for determining if the open should be retried was intended to
be based on the access mode of the lower file's open flags being
O_RDONLY, but the check was incorrectly performed. This would cause the
open to be retried by the privileged kthread, resulting in a second
failed open of the lower file. This patch corrects the check to
determine if the open request should be handled by the privileged
kthread.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

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fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
... ... @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
149 149 (*lower_file) = dentry_open(lower_dentry, lower_mnt, flags, cred);
150 150 if (!IS_ERR(*lower_file))
151 151 goto out;
152   - if (flags & O_RDONLY) {
  152 + if ((flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY) {
153 153 rc = PTR_ERR((*lower_file));
154 154 goto out;
155 155 }