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    eCryptfs: Properly check for O_RDONLY flag before doing privileged open · 9fe79d76
    Tyler Hicks authored
    If the first attempt at opening the lower file read/write fails,
    eCryptfs will retry using a privileged kthread. However, the privileged
    retry should not happen if the lower file's inode is read-only because a
    read/write open will still be unsuccessful.
    
    The check for determining if the open should be retried was intended to
    be based on the access mode of the lower file's open flags being
    O_RDONLY, but the check was incorrectly performed. This would cause the
    open to be retried by the privileged kthread, resulting in a second
    failed open of the lower file. This patch corrects the check to
    determine if the open request should be handled by the privileged
    kthread.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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