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Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:53:11 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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Hello, Christian.

Sorry about late reply.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:29:44PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Could it be that you misread cgroup_attach_permissions()? Because it
> does check for write permissions on the destination cgroup.procs file.
> That's why I've added the cgroup_get_from_file() helper. :) See:
> 
> static int cgroup_attach_permissions(struct cgroup *src_cgrp,
> 				     struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
> 				     struct super_block *sb, bool thread)
> {
> 	int ret = 0;
> 
> 	ret = cgroup_procs_write_permission(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp, sb);
> 	if (ret)
> 		return ret;

So, if you look at cgroup_procs_write_permission(), it's only checking
the write perm of the common ancestor, not the destination because it
assumes that the destination is already checked by the vfs layer, and
we need to check both.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun