From bbe9ac11d8d4a8511214605509a593fb9f04ffaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:28:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chown-recursive: also drop ACLs when recursively chown()ing
Let's better be safe than sorry and also drop ACLs.
(cherry-picked from commit f89bc84f3242449cbc308892c87573b131f121df)
Related: #1643368
---
src/core/chown-recursive.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/core/chown-recursive.c b/src/core/chown-recursive.c
index 27c64489b5..447b771267 100644
--- a/src/core/chown-recursive.c
+++ b/src/core/chown-recursive.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/xattr.h>
#include "chown-recursive.h"
#include "dirent-util.h"
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@
static int chown_one(int fd, const struct stat *st, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
char procfs_path[STRLEN("/proc/self/fd/") + DECIMAL_STR_MAX(int) + 1];
+ const char *n;
assert(fd >= 0);
assert(st);
@@ -26,13 +28,19 @@ static int chown_one(int fd, const struct stat *st, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
* O_PATH. (Note: fchown() and fchmod() do not work with O_PATH, the kernel refuses that. */
xsprintf(procfs_path, "/proc/self/fd/%i", fd);
+ /* Drop any ACL if there is one */
+ FOREACH_STRING(n, "system.posix_acl_access", "system.posix_acl_default")
+ if (removexattr(procfs_path, n) < 0)
+ if (!IN_SET(errno, ENODATA, EOPNOTSUPP, ENOSYS, ENOTTY))
+ return -errno;
+
if (chown(procfs_path, uid, gid) < 0)
return -errno;
- /* The linux kernel alters the mode in some cases of chown(). Let's undo this. We do this only for non-symlinks
- * however. That's because for symlinks the access mode is ignored anyway and because on some kernels/file
- * systems trying to change the access mode will succeed but has no effect while on others it actively
- * fails. */
+ /* The linux kernel alters the mode in some cases of chown(), as well when we change ACLs. Let's undo this. We
+ * do this only for non-symlinks however. That's because for symlinks the access mode is ignored anyway and
+ * because on some kernels/file systems trying to change the access mode will succeed but has no effect while
+ * on others it actively fails. */
if (!S_ISLNK(st->st_mode))
if (chmod(procfs_path, st->st_mode & 07777) < 0)
return -errno;