VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.

This factors out the part of the vfs_setxattr function that performs the
setting of the xattr and its notification. This is needed so the SELinux
implementation of inode_setsecctx can handle the setting of the xattr while
maintaining the proper separation of layers.

Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 1c3d0af59ddf..6d4f6d3449fb 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -66,22 +66,28 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
         return inode_permission(inode, mask);
 }
 
-int
-vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
-                size_t size, int flags)
+/**
+ *  __vfs_setxattr_noperm - perform setxattr operation without performing
+ *  permission checks.
+ *
+ *  @dentry - object to perform setxattr on
+ *  @name - xattr name to set
+ *  @value - value to set @name to
+ *  @size - size of @value
+ *  @flags - flags to pass into filesystem operations
+ *
+ *  returns the result of the internal setxattr or setsecurity operations.
+ *
+ *  This function requires the caller to lock the inode's i_mutex before it
+ *  is executed. It also assumes that the caller will make the appropriate
+ *  permission checks.
+ */
+int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
+                const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
 {
         struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
-        int error;
-
-        error = xattr_permission(inode, name, MAY_WRITE);
-        if (error)
-                return error;
+        int error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-        error = security_inode_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
-        if (error)
-                goto out;
-        error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
         if (inode->i_op->setxattr) {
                 error = inode->i_op->setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
                 if (!error) {
@@ -97,6 +103,29 @@ vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
                 if (!error)
                         fsnotify_xattr(dentry);
         }
+
+        return error;
+}
+
+
+int
+vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
+                size_t size, int flags)
+{
+        struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+        int error;
+
+        error = xattr_permission(inode, name, MAY_WRITE);
+        if (error)
+                return error;
+
+        mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+        error = security_inode_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
+        if (error)
+                goto out;
+
+        error = __vfs_setxattr_noperm(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
+
 out:
         mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
         return error;