The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].
The current inode operation for getting posix acls takes an inode
argument but various filesystems (e.g., 9p, cifs, overlayfs) need access
to the dentry. In contrast to the ->set_acl() inode operation we cannot
simply extend ->get_acl() to take a dentry argument. The ->get_acl()
inode operation is called from:
acl_permission_check()
-> check_acl()
-> get_acl()
which is part of generic_permission() which in turn is part of
inode_permission(). Both generic_permission() and inode_permission() are
called in the ->permission() handler of various filesystems (e.g.,
overlayfs). So simply passing a dentry argument to ->get_acl() would
amount to also having to pass a dentry argument to ->permission(). We
should avoid this unnecessary change.
So instead of extending the existing inode operation rename it from
->get_acl() to ->get_inode_acl() and add a ->get_acl() method later that
passes a dentry argument and which filesystems that need access to the
dentry can implement instead of ->get_inode_acl(). Filesystems like cifs
which allow setting and getting posix acls but not using them for
permission checking during lookup can simply not implement
->get_inode_acl().
This is intended to be a non-functional change.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Suggested-by/Inspired-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.
As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The log of UAF problem is listed below.
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in jffs2_rmdir+0xa4/0x1cc [jffs2] at addr c1f165fc
Read of size 4 by task rm/8283
=============================================================================
BUG kmalloc-32 (Tainted: P B O ): kasan: bad access detected
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: Allocated in 0xbbbbbbbb age=3054364 cpu=0 pid=0
0xb0bba6ef
jffs2_write_dirent+0x11c/0x9c8 [jffs2]
__slab_alloc.isra.21.constprop.25+0x2c/0x44
__kmalloc+0x1dc/0x370
jffs2_write_dirent+0x11c/0x9c8 [jffs2]
jffs2_do_unlink+0x328/0x5fc [jffs2]
jffs2_rmdir+0x110/0x1cc [jffs2]
vfs_rmdir+0x180/0x268
do_rmdir+0x2cc/0x300
ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
INFO: Freed in 0x205b age=3054364 cpu=0 pid=0
0x2e9173
jffs2_add_fd_to_list+0x138/0x1dc [jffs2]
jffs2_add_fd_to_list+0x138/0x1dc [jffs2]
jffs2_garbage_collect_dirent.isra.3+0x21c/0x288 [jffs2]
jffs2_garbage_collect_live+0x16bc/0x1800 [jffs2]
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x678/0x11d4 [jffs2]
jffs2_garbage_collect_thread+0x1e8/0x3b0 [jffs2]
kthread+0x1a8/0x1b0
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
Call Trace:
[c17ddd20] [c02452d4] kasan_report.part.0+0x298/0x72c (unreliable)
[c17ddda0] [d2509680] jffs2_rmdir+0xa4/0x1cc [jffs2]
[c17dddd0] [c026da04] vfs_rmdir+0x180/0x268
[c17dde00] [c026f4e4] do_rmdir+0x2cc/0x300
[c17ddf40] [c001a658] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
The root cause is that we don't get "jffs2_inode_info.sem" before
we scan list "jffs2_inode_info.dents" in function jffs2_rmdir.
This patch add codes to get "jffs2_inode_info.sem" before we scan
"jffs2_inode_info.dents" to slove the UAF problem.
Signed-off-by: Zhe Li <lizhe67@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
The VFS now uses timespec64 timestamps consistently, but jffs2 still
converts them to 32-bit numbers on the storage medium. As the helper
functions for the conversion (get_seconds() and timespec_to_timespec64())
are now deprecated, let's change them over to the more modern
replacements.
This keeps the traditional interpretation of those values, where
the on-disk 32-bit numbers are taken to be negative numbers, i.e.
dates before 1970, on 32-bit machines, but future numbers past 2038
on 64-bit machines.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Pull the timespec64 conversion from Deepa Dinamani:
"The series aims to switch vfs timestamps to use
struct timespec64. Currently vfs uses struct timespec,
which is not y2038 safe.
The flag patch applies cleanly. I've not seen the timestamps
update logic change often. The series applies cleanly on 4.17-rc6
and linux-next tip (top commit: next-20180517).
I'm not sure how to merge this kind of a series with a flag patch.
We are targeting 4.18 for this.
Let me know if you have other suggestions.
The series involves the following:
1. Add vfs helper functions for supporting struct timepec64 timestamps.
2. Cast prints of vfs timestamps to avoid warnings after the switch.
3. Simplify code using vfs timestamps so that the actual
replacement becomes easy.
4. Convert vfs timestamps to use struct timespec64 using a script.
This is a flag day patch.
I've tried to keep the conversions with the script simple, to
aid in the reviews. I've kept all the internal filesystem data
structures and function signatures the same.
Next steps:
1. Convert APIs that can handle timespec64, instead of converting
timestamps at the boundaries.
2. Update internal data structures to avoid timestamp conversions."
I've pulled it into a branch based on top of the NFS changes that
are now in mainline, so I could resolve the non-obvious conflict
between the two while merging.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
For anything NFS-exported we do _not_ want to unlock new inode
before it has grown an alias; original set of fixes got the
ordering right, but missed the nasty complication in case of
lockdep being enabled - unlock_new_inode() does
lockdep_annotate_inode_mutex_key(inode)
which can only be done before anyone gets a chance to touch
->i_mutex. Unfortunately, flipping the order and doing
unlock_new_inode() before d_instantiate() opens a window when
mkdir can race with open-by-fhandle on a guessed fhandle, leading
to multiple aliases for a directory inode and all the breakage
that follows from that.
Correct solution: a new primitive (d_instantiate_new())
combining these two in the right order - lockdep annotate, then
d_instantiate(), then the rest of unlock_new_inode(). All
combinations of d_instantiate() with unlock_new_inode() should
be converted to that.
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.29 and later
Tested-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
vfs: Add current_time() api
vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
These inode operations are no longer used; remove them.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
When CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_XATTR is off, jffs2_xattr_handlers is defined as
NULL. With sb->s_xattr == NULL, the generic_{get,set,remove}xattr
functions produce the same result as setting the {get,set,remove}xattr
inode operations to NULL, so there is no need for these macros.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We always mixed in the parent pointer into the dentry name hash, but we
did it late at lookup time. It turns out that we can simplify that
lookup-time action by salting the hash with the parent pointer early
instead of late.
A few other users of our string hashes also wanted to mix in their own
pointers into the hash, and those are updated to use the same mechanism.
Hash users that don't have any particular initial salt can just use the
NULL pointer as a no-salt.
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
d_instantiate(new_dentry, old_inode) is absolutely wrong thing to
do - it will oops if new_dentry used to be positive, for starters.
What we need is d_invalidate() the target and be done with that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
As new_valid_dev always returns 1, so !new_valid_dev check is not
needed, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the following where appropriate:
(1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry).
(2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry).
(3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry). This is actually more
complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to
d_can_lookup() instead. The difference is whether the directory in
question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with
a ->d_automount op.
In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being
NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects
d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to
use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer).
Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS
manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer. In such a
case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the
type of the lower dentry.
However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use
the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem.
There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled
DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE. Strictly, this was
intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes.
The following perl+coccinelle script was used:
use strict;
my @callers;
open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') ||
die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers";
@callers = <$fd>;
close($fd);
unless (@callers) {
print "No matches\n";
exit(0);
}
my @cocci = (
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_symlink(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_dir(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_reg(E)' );
my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci";
open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile;
print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci);
close($fd);
foreach my $file (@callers) {
chomp $file;
print "Processing ", $file, "\n";
system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 ||
die "spatch failed";
}
[AV: overlayfs parts skipped]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Also don't bother to set up a .get_acl method for symlinks as we do not
support access control (ACLs or even mode bits) for symlinks in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use pr_fmt to prefix KBUILD_MODNAME to appropriate logging messages.
Remove now unnecessary internal prefixes from formats.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Use the more current logging style.
Coalesce formats, align arguments.
Convert uses of embedded function names to %s, __func__.
A couple of long line checkpatch errors I don't care about exist.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
D1 and D2 macros are mostly uses to emit debugging messages.
Convert the logging uses of D1 & D2 to jffs2_dbg(level, fmt, ...)
to be a bit more consistent style with the rest of the kernel.
All jffs2_dbg output is now at KERN_DEBUG where some of
the previous uses were emitted at various KERN_<LEVEL>s.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss. This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We don't generate IN_DELETE_SELF on victim of overwriting rename() if
it happens to be a directory. Trivially fixed by doing to ->i_nlink
what we do ->pino_nlink a couple of lines later in jffs2_rename().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (36 commits)
Cache xattr security drop check for write v2
fs: block_page_mkwrite should wait for writeback to finish
mm: Wait for writeback when grabbing pages to begin a write
configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
fat: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
hpfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
minix: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
coda: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
afs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
affs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
9p: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
ncpfs: fix rename over directory with dangling references
ncpfs: document dentry_unhash usage
ecryptfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
hostfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
hfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
omfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rneame
udf: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash from rmdir, dir rename
...
jffs2 does not have problems with references to unlinked directories.
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (97 commits)
mtd: kill CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
mtd: remove add_mtd_partitions, add_mtd_device and friends
mtd: convert remaining users to mtd_device_register()
mtd: samsung onenand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: omap2 onenand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: txx9ndfmc: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: tmio_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: socrates_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: sharpsl: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: s3c2410 nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: ppchameleonevb: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: orion_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: omap2: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: nomadik_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: ndfc: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: mxc_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: mpc5121_nfc: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: jz4740_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: h1910: convert to mtd_device_register()
mtd: fsmc_nand: convert to mtd_device_register()
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts in
- drivers/mtd/maps/integrator-flash.c: removed in ARM tree
- drivers/mtd/maps/physmap.c: addition of afs partition probe type
clashing with removal of CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
Only a few file systems need this. Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Only a few file systems need this. Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.
This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
inodes. We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
process. This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
new object when deciding the new label. This is not the (supposed) full path,
just the last component of the path.
This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
/etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
operations. We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
to get things set up correctly. This patch does not implement new
behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook. If no such name
exists it is fine to pass NULL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (82 commits)
mtd: fix build error in m25p80.c
mtd: Remove redundant mutex from mtd_blkdevs.c
MTD: Fix wrong check register_blkdev return value
Revert "mtd: cleanup Kconfig dependencies"
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: make sector erase command variable
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add CFI detection for SST 38VF640x chips
mtd: cfi_util: add support for switching SST 39VF640xB chips into QRY mode
mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001: use defined value of P_ID_INTEL_PERFORMANCE instead of hardcoded one
block2mtd: dubious assignment
P4080/mtd: Fix the freescale lbc issue with 36bit mode
P4080/eLBC: Make Freescale elbc interrupt common to elbc devices
mtd: phram: use KBUILD_MODNAME
mtd: OneNAND: S5PC110: Fix double call suspend & resume function
mtd: nand: fix MTD_MODE_RAW writes
jffs2: use kmemdup
mtd: sm_ftl: cosmetic, use bool when possible
mtd: r852: remove useless pci powerup/down from suspend/resume routines
mtd: blktrans: fix a race vs kthread_stop
mtd: blktrans: kill BKL
mtd: allow to unload the mtdtrans module if its block devices aren't open
...
Fix up trivial whitespace-introduced conflict in drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
Convert a sequence of kmalloc and memcpy to use kmemdup.
The semantic patch that performs this transformation is:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression a,flag,len;
expression arg,e1,e2;
statement S;
@@
a =
- \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(len,flag)
+ kmemdup(arg,len,flag)
<... when != a
if (a == NULL || ...) S
...>
- memcpy(a,arg,len+1);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (79 commits)
mtd: Remove obsolete <mtd/compatmac.h> include
mtd: Update copyright notices
jffs2: Update copyright notices
mtd-physmap: add support users can assign the probe type in board files
mtd: remove redwood map driver
mxc_nand: Add v3 (i.MX51) Support
mxc_nand: support 8bit ecc
mxc_nand: fix correct_data function
mxc_nand: add V1_V2 namespace to registers
mxc_nand: factor out a check_int function
mxc_nand: make some internally used functions overwriteable
mxc_nand: rework get_dev_status
mxc_nand: remove 0xe00 offset from registers
mtd: denali: Add multi connected NAND support
mtd: denali: Remove set_ecc_config function
mtd: denali: Remove unuseful code in get_xx_nand_para functions
mtd: denali: Remove device_info_tag structure
mtd: m25p80: add support for the Winbond W25Q32 SPI flash chip
mtd: m25p80: add support for the Intel/Numonyx {16,32,64}0S33B SPI flash chips
mtd: m25p80: add support for the EON EN25P{32, 64} SPI flash chips
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/mtd/maps/{Kconfig,redwood.c} due to
redwood driver removal.
New inodes need to be locked as we're creating them, so they don't get used
by other things (like NFSd) before they're ready.
Pointed out by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
