From 5f16f3225b06242a9ee876f07c1c9b6ed36a22b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:43:12 -0400 Subject: ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags() Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief window of time. Reported-by: John Sullivan Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 60829565e552..5d1f6fa8daed 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2556,6 +2556,9 @@ static inline ssize_t blockdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode); void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode); +extern void inode_set_flags(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags, + unsigned int mask); + extern const struct file_operations generic_ro_fops; #define special_file(m) (S_ISCHR(m)||S_ISBLK(m)||S_ISFIFO(m)||S_ISSOCK(m)) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b