linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/73] VFS: Make chown() and lchown() call fchownat() [ver #2]

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Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:57:29 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	valerie.aurora@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/73] VFS: Make chown() and lchown() call fchownat() [ver #2]

Make the chown() and lchown() syscalls jump to the fchownat() syscall with the
appropriate extra arguments.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 fs/open.c |   41 +++++++----------------------------------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 77becc0..3c44148 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -527,25 +527,6 @@ static int chown_common(struct path *path, uid_t user, gid_t group)
 	return error;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(chown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group)
-{
-	struct path path;
-	int error;
-
-	error = user_path(filename, &path);
-	if (error)
-		goto out;
-	error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_release;
-	error = chown_common(&path, user, group);
-	mnt_drop_write(path.mnt);
-out_release:
-	path_put(&path);
-out:
-	return error;
-}
-
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fchownat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user,
 		gid_t, group, int, flag)
 {
@@ -573,23 +554,15 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lchown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group)
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(chown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group)
 {
-	struct path path;
-	int error;
+	return sys_fchownat(AT_FDCWD, filename, user, group, 0);
+}
 
-	error = user_lpath(filename, &path);
-	if (error)
-		goto out;
-	error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_release;
-	error = chown_common(&path, user, group);
-	mnt_drop_write(path.mnt);
-out_release:
-	path_put(&path);
-out:
-	return error;
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(lchown, const char __user *, filename, uid_t, user, gid_t, group)
+{
+	return sys_fchownat(AT_FDCWD, filename, user, group,
+			    AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fchown, unsigned int, fd, uid_t, user, gid_t, group)

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