linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH] vfs: don't check may_create_in_sticky if the file is already open/created

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:23:33 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Yongchen Yang <yoyang@...hat.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] vfs: don't check may_create_in_sticky if the file is already open/created

NFS server is exporting a sticky directory (mode 01777) with root
squashing enabled. Client has protect_regular enabled and then tries to
open a file as root in that directory. File is created (with ownership
set to nobody:nobody) but the open syscall returns an error.

The problem is may_create_in_sticky, which rejects the open even though
the file has already been created/opened. Only call may_create_in_sticky
if the file hasn't already been opened or created.

Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976829
Reported-by: Yongchen Yang <yoyang@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
---
 fs/namei.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 1f28d3f463c3..7480b6dc8d27 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3495,10 +3495,15 @@ static int do_open(struct nameidata *nd,
 			return -EEXIST;
 		if (d_is_dir(nd->path.dentry))
 			return -EISDIR;
-		error = may_create_in_sticky(mnt_userns, nd,
-					     d_backing_inode(nd->path.dentry));
-		if (unlikely(error))
-			return error;
+		if (!(file->f_mode & (FMODE_OPENED | FMODE_CREATED))) {
+			error = may_create_in_sticky(mnt_userns, nd,
+						d_backing_inode(nd->path.dentry));
+			if (unlikely(error)) {
+				printk("%s: f_mode=0x%x oflag=0x%x\n",
+					__func__, file->f_mode, open_flag);
+				return error;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && !d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry))
 		return -ENOTDIR;
-- 
2.37.1