From: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> The statx() system call currently accepts unknown flags when called with a NULL path to operate on a file descriptor. Left unchanged, this could make it hard to introduce new query flags in the future, since applications may not be able to tell whether a given flag is supported.
Fix this by failing the system call with EINVAL if any flags other than KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS are specified in combination with a NULL path. Arguably, we could still permit known lookup-related flags such as AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW. However, that would be inconsistent with how sys_utimensat() behaves when passed a NULL path, which seems to be the closest precedent. And given that the NULL path case is (I believe) mainly intended to be used to implement a wrapper function like fstatx() that doesn't have a path argument, I think rejecting lookup-related flags too is probably the best choice. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> --- fs/stat.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c index fa0be59340cc..df484a60846d 100644 --- a/fs/stat.c +++ b/fs/stat.c @@ -130,9 +130,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_getattr); int vfs_statx_fd(unsigned int fd, struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask, unsigned int query_flags) { - struct fd f = fdget_raw(fd); + struct fd f; int error = -EBADF; + if (query_flags & ~KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS) + return -EINVAL; + + f = fdget_raw(fd); if (f.file) { error = vfs_getattr(&f.file->f_path, stat, request_mask, query_flags);
