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Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD permission flags

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On Aug 28, 2015 2:54 PM, "Andreas Grünbacher"
<andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2015-08-28 23:36 GMT+02:00 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>:
> > Silly question from the peanut gallery: is there any such thing as
> > opening an fd pointing at a file such that the "open file description"
> > (i.e. the struct file) captures the right to delete the file?
> >
> > IOW do we need FMODE_DELETE_SELF?
>
> When would that permission be checked, what syscall would you use to
> unlink an open file descriptor?

Good point.  It's remotely plausible that there's some trick with bind
mounts, it's likely possible to unlink a directory by fd (using
unlinkat), and you can *link* a file (with linkat or /proc), but
unlinkat doesn't appear to allow you to unlink a file by fd.

--Andy

>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD  permission flags Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-28 23:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD  permission flags Andreas Grünbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 00:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD  permission flags Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-08-29 03:10 +0200
  Re: [RFC v6 03/40] vfs: Add MAY_DELETE_SELF and MAY_DELETE_CHILD  permission flags bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2015-08-29 00:00 +0200

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