Commit 94f98453 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: Make sure the MOVE_EXT ioctl can't overwrite append-only files

commit 1f5a81e4 upstream.

Dan Roseberg has reported a problem with the MOVE_EXT ioctl.  If the
donor file is an append-only file, we should not allow the operation
to proceed, lest we end up overwriting the contents of an append-only
file.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 5ea7d8ce
......@@ -959,6 +959,9 @@ mext_check_arguments(struct inode *orig_inode,
return -EINVAL;
}
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(donor_inode) || IS_APPEND(donor_inode))
return -EPERM;
/* Ext4 move extent does not support swapfile */
if (IS_SWAPFILE(orig_inode) || IS_SWAPFILE(donor_inode)) {
ext4_debug("ext4 move extent: The argument files should "
......
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