Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 May 2018 07:58:32 -0500 | From | Seth Forshee <> | Subject | Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 1/6] vfs: Don't allow changing the link count of an inode with an invalid uid or gid |
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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:25:33PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Changing the link count of an inode via unlink or link will cause a > write back of that inode. If the uids or gids are invalid (aka not known > to the kernel) writing the inode back may change the uid or gid in the > filesystem. To prevent possible filesystem and to avoid the need for > filesystem maintainers to worry about it don't allow operations on > inodes with an invalid uid or gid. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
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