From: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] ufs: do not inherit file flags from the parent directory
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 22:55:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260801225530.148386-5-ali@iusegentoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260801225530.148386-1-ali@iusegentoo.com>
ufs_new_inode() starts a new inode off with the parent directory's
on-disk flags:
ufsi->i_flags = UFS_I(dir)->i_flags;
These are BSD chflags, and they have no inheritance semantics. FreeBSD's
ufs_makeinode() leaves di_flags at zero and only ever sets UF_OPAQUE, and
only for a whiteout. The line comes from the ext2 code fs/ufs/ialloc.c
was derived from, where the flags are Linux inode flags that do have an
inherited subset.
The result is that a file created on Linux inside a directory FreeBSD
marked with chflags schg or sappnd is written out carrying SF_IMMUTABLE
or SF_APPEND itself. Linux does not act on those bits, so nothing looks
wrong at the time, but back on FreeBSD the new file is immutable or
append-only and cannot be removed without lowering the securelevel.
Nothing asked for that.
Start new inodes with no flags set.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
---
fs/ufs/ialloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ufs/ialloc.c b/fs/ufs/ialloc.c
index 4c3c76c4e7ff..dc3eeb415876 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/ialloc.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ struct inode *ufs_new_inode(struct inode *dir, umode_t mode)
inode->i_blocks = 0;
inode->i_generation = 0;
simple_inode_init_ts(inode);
- ufsi->i_flags = UFS_I(dir)->i_flags;
+ ufsi->i_flags = 0;
ufsi->i_extsize = 0;
memset(ufsi->i_extb, 0, sizeof(ufsi->i_extb));
ufsi->i_lastfrag = 0;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-01 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-01 22:55 [PATCH 00/10] ufs: correctness fixes for valid on-disk filesystems Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 01/10] ufs: name the modern UFS2 superblock fields Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 02/10] ufs: use i_size to detect fast symlinks Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 03/10] ufs: free UFS2 external attribute blocks on inode deletion Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` Ali Ahmet Memis [this message]
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 05/10] ufs: honour on-disk immutable and append-only flags Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 06/10] ufs: fix fragment relocation offsets within a folio Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] ufs: revalidate filesystem state before remounting read-write Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] ufs: refuse read-write mount when fsck or journal replay is needed Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] ufs: refuse read-write mount of filesystems with active snapshots Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-01 22:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] ufs: refuse read-write mount of check-hashed filesystems Ali Ahmet Memis
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