Commit 3836a03d authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris Committed by Linus Torvalds

anon_inodes: mark the anon inode private

Inotify was switched to use anon_inode instead of its own private filesystem
which only had one inode in commit c44dcc56 "switch inotify_user to
anon_inode"

The problem with this is that now the inotify inode is not a distinct inode
which can be managed by LSMs.  userspace tools which use inotify were allowed
to use the inotify inode but may not have had permission to do read/write type
operations on the anon_inode.  After looking at the anon_inode and its users
it looks like the best solution is to just mark the anon_inode as S_PRIVATE
so the security system will ignore it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 83c0fb65
......@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ static struct inode *anon_inode_mkinode(void)
inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
return inode;
}
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