Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:39:13 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 07:02, Colin Paton wrote:
> In file: fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c modify nfs3_proc_access(). This calls the > access RPC on the server. I added the following to the code: > > if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode)) > { > // Leave arg.access untouched. > > } > > ...so that the the MODIFY and EXTEND bits aren't set when writing to a > block or character device.
Hmm... Why shouldn't the MODIFY bit at least be set if the user requested write access to the device?
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