[PATCH] afs: Fix updating of i_mode due to 3rd party change
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Feb 10 14:30:45 EST 2021
Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Also, it's been suggested that I should also mask off the SUID, SGID and VTX
> > bits.
>
> No sticky bit on AFS, you mean?
Well, AFS will store these bits, but it's kind of dangerous to have SUID/SGID
binaries on a globally distributed filesystem. Possibly a better way would be
to turn on MNT_NOSUID by default.
David
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