Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] vfs: utimes: move owner check into inode_change_ok() | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:23:23 +0200 |
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Hi Michael,
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote: > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > > > > Add a new ia_valid flag: ATTR_TIMES_SET, to handle the > > UTIMES_OMIT/UTIMES_NOW and UTIMES_NOW/UTIMES_OMIT cases. In these > > cases neither ATTR_MTIME_SET nor ATTR_ATIME_SET is in the flags, yet > > the POSIX draft specifies that permission checking is performed the > > same way as if one or both of the times was explicitly set to a > > timestamp. > > > > See the path "vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for > > {UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case" by Michael Kerrisk for the patch > > introducing this behavior. > > > > This is a cleanup, as well as allowing filesystems (NFS/fuse/...) to > > perform their own permission checking instead of the default. > > What kernel version/tree is this patch against?
Against latest git. 2.6.26-rc8-git2 seems to be recent enough.
Miklos
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