From: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: [Bug 60676] Stat system call gives permission denied to root for links under a sticky bit Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:19:08 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:54612 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751837Ab3HASTL (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:19:11 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D1B20363 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugzilla2.web.kernel.org (bugzilla2.web.kernel.org [172.20.200.52]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B307920354 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 18:19:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60676 --- Comment #2 from James Kolb --- The stat command (stat(1)) works on the link itself (but you can't go further down the filesystem hierarchy). So, in my previous example, calling "stat /tmp/testlink" and "stat /tmp/testdir/testfile" both work, but "stat /tmp/testlink/testfile" gives a permission error if you are root: > stat: cannot stat `/tmp/testlink/testfile': Permission denied The glibc stat function (stat(2)) does not even work on the link itself. I'm not using SELinux. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.