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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
commitd0b2f91bede3bd5e3d24dd6803e56eee959c1797 (patch)
tree7fee4ab0509879c373c4f2cbd5b8a5be5b4041ee /fs/xattr.c
parente914f8eb445e8f74b00303c19c2ffceaedd16a05 (diff)
Linux-libre 4.8.2-gnupck-4.8.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index e11871527..b60dc6076 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
if (mask & MAY_WRITE) {
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
return -EPERM;
+ /*
+ * Updating an xattr will likely cause i_uid and i_gid
+ * to be writen back improperly if their true value is
+ * unknown to the vfs.
+ */
+ if (HAS_UNMAPPED_ID(inode))
+ return -EPERM;
}
/*