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Al pointed out that a malicious or broken MDS could change the type or device number of a given inode number. It may also be possible for the MDS to reuse an old inode number. Ensure that we never allow fill_inode to change the type part of the i_mode or the i_rdev unless I_NEW is set. Throw warnings if the MDS ever changes these on us mid-stream, and return an error. Don't set i_rdev directly, and rely on init_special_inode to do it. Also, fix up error handling in the callers of ceph_get_inode. In handle_cap_grant, check for and warn if the inode type changes, and only overwrite the mode if it didn't. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.