2008-03-21 23:16:17

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [patch 25/76] fuse: fix permission checking

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

[upstream commit 1a823ac9ff09cbdf39201df37b7ede1f9395de83]

I added a nasty local variable shadowing bug to fuse in 2.6.24, with the
result, that the 'default_permissions' mount option is basically ignored.

How did this happen?

- old err declaration in inner scope
- new err getting declared in outer scope
- 'return err' from inner scope getting removed
- old declaration not being noticed

-Wshadow would have saved us, but it doesn't seem practical for
the kernel :(

More testing would have also saved us :((

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode
}

if (fc->flags & FUSE_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS) {
- int err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
+ err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);

/* If permission is denied, try to refresh file
attributes. This is also needed, because the root

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