[Virtio-fs] [PATCH 0/4] Drop CAP_FSETID if client needs to kill setuid/setgid bits

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Vivek Goyal (vgoyal at redhat.com) wrote:
> If a file has setuid/setuid bit set and a writer writes to file without
> having CAP_FSETID capability, kernel clears setuid/setgid bit on file.
> 
> pjdfstest test chmod/12.t tests for this. With moving to 5.3 kernel and
> cache=none this test fails. 
> 
> Now Miklos has introducd a commit where if client thinks that
> setuid/setgid bit should be cleared, it sets FUSE_KILL_PRIV flag
> in fuse_write_in->write_flags. This is an indication to daemon to
> clear setuid/setgid bit atomically.
> 
> So drop CAP_FSETID capability and then proceed with write and that
> should automatically clear setuid bit.

1,2,3 added to my world.
4 still to be discussed

> Vivek Goyal (4):
>   virtiofsd: Fix number of padding bits in fuse_file_info
>   virtiofsd: Use macros for write_flag parsing
>   virtiofsd: Parse flag FUSE_WRITE_KILL_PRIV
>   virtiofsd: Drop CAP_FSETID if client asked for it
> 
>  contrib/virtiofsd/Makefile.objs    |   2 +
>  contrib/virtiofsd/fuse_common.h    |   5 +-
>  contrib/virtiofsd/fuse_kernel.h    |   1 +
>  contrib/virtiofsd/fuse_lowlevel.c  |   6 +-
>  contrib/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/virtiofsd/seccomp.c        |   2 +
>  6 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.2
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK