[PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last step

... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having
it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution.  LOOKUP_CHDIR
is killed by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2008-07-16 09:51:03 -04:00
parent db2e747b14
commit 8bb79224b8
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@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
#define LOOKUP_OPEN (0x0100)
#define LOOKUP_CREATE (0x0200)
#define LOOKUP_ACCESS (0x0400)
#define LOOKUP_CHDIR (0x0800)
extern int __user_walk(const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);
extern int __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);