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Change History

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

NFS: Fix LTP test failures when timestamps are delegated

The utimes01 and utime06 tests fail when delegated timestamps are
enabled, specifically in subtests that modify the atime and mtime
fields using the 'nobody' user ID.

The problem can be reproduced as follow:

# echo "/media *(rw,no_root_squash,sync)" >> /etc/exports
# export -ra
# mount -o rw,nfsvers=4.2 127.0.0.1:/media /tmpdir
# cd /opt/ltp
# ./runltp -d /tmpdir -s utimes01
# ./runltp -d /tmpdir -s utime06

This issue occurs because nfs_setattr does not verify the inode's
UID against the caller's fsuid when delegated timestamps are
permitted for the inode.

This patch adds the UID check and if it does not match then the
request is sent to the server for permission checking.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e9be902041c6b9f0ed4b72764187eed1067a42f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2e4cda71ed062c87573b016d2d956a62f4258ed

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b623390045a81fc559decb9bfeb79319721d3dfb