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Commit e014f37d authored by Darrick J. Wong's avatar Darrick J. Wong
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xfs: use setattr_copy to set vfs inode attributes

Filipe Manana pointed out that XFS' behavior w.r.t. setuid/setgid
revocation isn't consistent with btrfs[1] or ext4.  Those two
filesystems use the VFS function setattr_copy to convey certain
attributes from struct iattr into the VFS inode structure.

Andrey Zhadchenko reported[2] that XFS uses the wrong user namespace to
decide if it should clear setgid and setuid on a file attribute update.
This is a second symptom of the problem that Filipe noticed.

XFS, on the other hand, open-codes setattr_copy in xfs_setattr_mode,
xfs_setattr_nonsize, and xfs_setattr_time.  Regrettably, setattr_copy is
/not/ a simple copy function; it contains additional logic to clear the
setgid bit when setting the mode, and XFS' version no longer matches.

The VFS implements its own setuid/setgid stripping logic, which
establishes consistent behavior.  It's a tad unfortunate that it's
scattered across notify_change, should_remove_suid, and setattr_copy but
XFS should really follow the Linux VFS.  Adapt XFS to use the VFS
functions and get rid of the old functions.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/CAL3q7H47iNQ=Wmk83WcGB-KBJVOEtR9+qGczzCeXJ9Y2KCV25Q@mail.gmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20220221182218.748084-1-andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com/

Fixes: 7fa294c8

 ("userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent eba0549b
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