This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
do_mount(): fix a leak introduced in 3.9 ("mount: consolidate permission
checks")
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
do_mount-fix-a-leak-introduced-in-3.9-mount-consolidate-permission-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 0d5cadb87e0fa764db7fa0b78d8a6f173cb475a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 14:40:51 -0400
Subject: do_mount(): fix a leak introduced in 3.9 ("mount: consolidate
permission checks")
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
commit 0d5cadb87e0fa764db7fa0b78d8a6f173cb475a1 upstream.
Bisected-by: Michael Leun <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/namespace.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2238,12 +2238,11 @@ long do_mount(const char *dev_name, cons
retval = security_sb_mount(dev_name, &path,
type_page, flags, data_page);
+ if (!retval && !may_mount())
+ retval = -EPERM;
if (retval)
goto dput_out;
- if (!may_mount())
- return -EPERM;
-
/* Default to relatime unless overriden */
if (!(flags & MS_NOATIME))
mnt_flags |= MNT_RELATIME;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.9/do_mount-fix-a-leak-introduced-in-3.9-mount-consolidate-permission-checks.patch
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