On 04/11/2017 01:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > But even if using open(O_PATH)/fchmod() works, it is not immediately > obvious whether it can catch all the same cases that chmodat(O_NOFOLLOW)
Typo; I obviously meant fchmodat(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) > would cover, as there are cases where you have permissions to change > mode bits but not open() the file for reading or writing. And even if > it gets rid of a TOCTTOU race, it still is a 2-syscall hit rather than > an atomic single syscall. > -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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