From: Miklos Szeredi The VFS checks sticky bits on the parent directory even if the filesystem defines it's own ->permission(). In some situations (sshfs, mountlo, etc) the user does have permission to delete a file even if the attribute based checking would not allow it. So work around this by storing the permission bits separately and returning them in stat(), but cutting the permission bits off from inode->i_mode. This is slightly hackish, but it's probably not worth it to add new infrastructure in VFS and a slight performance penalty for all filesystems, just for the sake of fuse. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Index: linux/fs/fuse/dir.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fuse/dir.c 2007-08-03 18:36:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/fuse/dir.c 2007-08-03 18:36:17.000000000 +0200 @@ -1054,8 +1054,10 @@ static int fuse_getattr(struct vfsmount if (fi->i_time < get_jiffies_64()) err = fuse_do_getattr(inode); - if (!err) + if (!err) { generic_fillattr(inode, stat); + stat->mode = fi->orig_i_mode; + } return err; } Index: linux/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h 2007-08-03 18:36:15.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h 2007-08-03 18:36:17.000000000 +0200 @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ struct fuse_inode { /** Time in jiffies until the file attributes are valid */ u64 i_time; + + /** The sticky bit in inode->i_mode may have been remved, so + preserve the original mode */ + mode_t orig_i_mode; }; /** FUSE specific file data */ Index: linux/fs/fuse/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fuse/inode.c 2007-08-03 18:36:14.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/fuse/inode.c 2007-08-03 18:36:37.000000000 +0200 @@ -120,10 +120,18 @@ static void fuse_truncate(struct address void fuse_change_attributes(struct inode *inode, struct fuse_attr *attr) { struct fuse_conn *fc = get_fuse_conn(inode); + struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode); loff_t oldsize; inode->i_ino = attr->ino; - inode->i_mode = (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) + (attr->mode & 07777); + fi->orig_i_mode = (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) + (attr->mode & 07777); + /* + * Don't set the mode bits in i_mode, unless we want the VFS + * to check permissions. This prevents failures due to the + * sticky bit check in may_delete(). + */ + if (fc->flags & FUSE_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS) + inode->i_mode = fi->orig_i_mode; inode->i_nlink = attr->nlink; inode->i_uid = attr->uid; inode->i_gid = attr->gid; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/