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SubjectRe: [PATCH] inotify: actually check for invalid bits in sys_inotify_add_watch()
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On 06/30/2015 10:36 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
>
> The comment here says that it is checking for invalid bits. But,
> the mask is *actually* checking to ensure that _any_ valid bit
> is set, which is quite different.
>
> Add the actual check which was intended. Retain the existing
> check because it actually does something useful: ensure that some
> inotify bits are being added to the watch. Plus, this is
> existing behavior which would be nice to preserve.
>
> I did a quick sniff test that inotify functions and that my
> 'inotify-tools' package passes 'make check'.

Did anybody have any comments on this patch? Who picks up inotify patches?

> b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c~inotify-EINVAL-on-invalid-bit fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
> --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c~inotify-EINVAL-on-invalid-bit 2015-06-26 13:33:30.277219285 -0700
> +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c 2015-06-26 13:35:19.026122033 -0700
> @@ -707,6 +707,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(inotify_add_watch, int,
> unsigned flags = 0;
>
> /* don't allow invalid bits: we don't want flags set */
> + if (unlikely(mask & ~ALL_INOTIFY_BITS))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + /* require at least one valid bit set in the mask */
> if (unlikely(!(mask & ALL_INOTIFY_BITS)))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> _
>



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