1 /* chown-core.c -- core functions for changing ownership.
2 Copyright (C) 2000-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Extracted from chown.c/chgrp.c and librarified by Jim Meyering. */
21 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #include "chown-core.h"
28 #include "ignore-value.h"
29 #include "root-dev-ino.h"
32 #define FTSENT_IS_DIRECTORY(E) \
33 ((E)->fts_info == FTS_D \
34 || (E)->fts_info == FTS_DC \
35 || (E)->fts_info == FTS_DP \
36 || (E)->fts_info == FTS_DNR)
40 /* we called fchown and close, and both succeeded */
43 /* required_uid and/or required_gid are specified, but don't match */
46 /* SAME_INODE check failed */
49 /* open/fchown isn't needed, isn't safe, or doesn't work due to
50 permissions problems; fall back on chown */
53 /* open, fstat, fchown, or close failed */
58 chopt_init (struct Chown_option
*chopt
)
60 chopt
->verbosity
= V_off
;
61 chopt
->root_dev_ino
= NULL
;
62 chopt
->affect_symlink_referent
= true;
63 chopt
->recurse
= false;
64 chopt
->force_silent
= false;
65 chopt
->user_name
= NULL
;
66 chopt
->group_name
= NULL
;
70 chopt_free (struct Chown_option
*chopt
)
72 free (chopt
->user_name
);
73 free (chopt
->group_name
);
76 /* Convert the numeric group-id, GID, to a string stored in xmalloc'd memory,
77 and return it. If there's no corresponding group name, use the decimal
78 representation of the ID. */
81 gid_to_name (gid_t gid
)
83 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (intmax_t)];
84 struct group
*grp
= getgrgid (gid
);
85 return xstrdup (grp
? grp
->gr_name
86 : TYPE_SIGNED (gid_t
) ? imaxtostr (gid
, buf
)
87 : umaxtostr (gid
, buf
));
90 /* Convert the numeric user-id, UID, to a string stored in xmalloc'd memory,
91 and return it. If there's no corresponding user name, use the decimal
92 representation of the ID. */
95 uid_to_name (uid_t uid
)
97 char buf
[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (intmax_t)];
98 struct passwd
*pwd
= getpwuid (uid
);
99 return xstrdup (pwd
? pwd
->pw_name
100 : TYPE_SIGNED (uid_t
) ? imaxtostr (uid
, buf
)
101 : umaxtostr (uid
, buf
));
104 /* Allocate a string representing USER and GROUP. */
107 user_group_str (char const *user
, char const *group
)
115 spec
= xmalloc (strlen (user
) + 1 + strlen (group
) + 1);
116 stpcpy (stpcpy (stpcpy (spec
, user
), ":"), group
);
120 spec
= xstrdup (user
);
125 spec
= xstrdup (group
);
131 /* Tell the user how/if the user and group of FILE have been changed.
132 If USER is NULL, give the group-oriented messages.
133 CHANGED describes what (if anything) has happened. */
136 describe_change (char const *file
, enum Change_status changed
,
137 char const *old_user
, char const *old_group
,
138 char const *user
, char const *group
)
144 if (changed
== CH_NOT_APPLIED
)
146 printf (_("neither symbolic link %s nor referent has been changed\n"),
151 spec
= user_group_str (user
, group
);
152 old_spec
= user_group_str (user
? old_user
: NULL
, group
? old_group
: NULL
);
157 fmt
= (user
? _("changed ownership of %s from %s to %s\n")
158 : group
? _("changed group of %s from %s to %s\n")
159 : _("no change to ownership of %s\n"));
164 fmt
= (user
? _("failed to change ownership of %s from %s to %s\n")
165 : group
? _("failed to change group of %s from %s to %s\n")
166 : _("failed to change ownership of %s\n"));
170 fmt
= (user
? _("failed to change ownership of %s to %s\n")
171 : group
? _("failed to change group of %s to %s\n")
172 : _("failed to change ownership of %s\n"));
178 case CH_NO_CHANGE_REQUESTED
:
179 fmt
= (user
? _("ownership of %s retained as %s\n")
180 : group
? _("group of %s retained as %s\n")
181 : _("ownership of %s retained\n"));
187 printf (fmt
, quoteaf (file
), old_spec
, spec
);
193 /* Change the owner and/or group of the FILE to UID and/or GID (safely)
194 only if REQUIRED_UID and REQUIRED_GID match the owner and group IDs
195 of FILE. ORIG_ST must be the result of 'stat'ing FILE.
197 The 'safely' part above means that we can't simply use chown(2),
198 since FILE might be replaced with some other file between the time
199 of the preceding stat/lstat and this chown call. So here we open
200 FILE and do everything else via the resulting file descriptor.
201 We first call fstat and verify that the dev/inode match those from
202 the preceding stat call, and only then, if appropriate (given the
203 required_uid and required_gid constraints) do we call fchown.
205 Return RC_do_ordinary_chown if we can't open FILE, or if FILE is a
206 special file that might have undesirable side effects when opening.
207 In this case the caller can use the less-safe ordinary chown.
209 Return one of the RCH_status values. */
211 static enum RCH_status
212 restricted_chown (int cwd_fd
, char const *file
,
213 struct stat
const *orig_st
,
214 uid_t uid
, gid_t gid
,
215 uid_t required_uid
, gid_t required_gid
)
217 enum RCH_status status
= RC_ok
;
219 int open_flags
= O_NONBLOCK
| O_NOCTTY
;
222 if (required_uid
== (uid_t
) -1 && required_gid
== (gid_t
) -1)
223 return RC_do_ordinary_chown
;
225 if (! S_ISREG (orig_st
->st_mode
))
227 if (S_ISDIR (orig_st
->st_mode
))
228 open_flags
|= O_DIRECTORY
;
230 return RC_do_ordinary_chown
;
233 fd
= openat (cwd_fd
, file
, O_RDONLY
| open_flags
);
235 || (errno
== EACCES
&& S_ISREG (orig_st
->st_mode
)
236 && 0 <= (fd
= openat (cwd_fd
, file
, O_WRONLY
| open_flags
)))))
237 return (errno
== EACCES
? RC_do_ordinary_chown
: RC_error
);
239 if (fstat (fd
, &st
) != 0)
241 else if (! SAME_INODE (*orig_st
, st
))
242 status
= RC_inode_changed
;
243 else if ((required_uid
== (uid_t
) -1 || required_uid
== st
.st_uid
)
244 && (required_gid
== (gid_t
) -1 || required_gid
== st
.st_gid
))
246 if (fchown (fd
, uid
, gid
) == 0)
248 status
= (close (fd
) == 0
258 int saved_errno
= errno
;
264 /* Change the owner and/or group of the file specified by FTS and ENT
265 to UID and/or GID as appropriate.
266 If REQUIRED_UID is not -1, then skip files with any other user ID.
267 If REQUIRED_GID is not -1, then skip files with any other group ID.
268 CHOPT specifies additional options.
269 Return true if successful. */
271 change_file_owner (FTS
*fts
, FTSENT
*ent
,
272 uid_t uid
, gid_t gid
,
273 uid_t required_uid
, gid_t required_gid
,
274 struct Chown_option
const *chopt
)
276 char const *file_full_name
= ent
->fts_path
;
277 char const *file
= ent
->fts_accpath
;
278 struct stat
const *file_stats
;
279 struct stat stat_buf
;
282 bool symlink_changed
= true;
284 switch (ent
->fts_info
)
289 if (ROOT_DEV_INO_CHECK (chopt
->root_dev_ino
, ent
->fts_statp
))
291 /* This happens e.g., with "chown -R --preserve-root 0 /"
292 and with "chown -RH --preserve-root 0 symlink-to-root". */
293 ROOT_DEV_INO_WARN (file_full_name
);
294 /* Tell fts not to traverse into this hierarchy. */
295 fts_set (fts
, ent
, FTS_SKIP
);
296 /* Ensure that we do not process "/" on the second visit. */
297 ignore_value (fts_read (fts
));
305 if (! chopt
->recurse
)
310 /* For a top-level file or directory, this FTS_NS (stat failed)
311 indicator is determined at the time of the initial fts_open call.
312 With programs like chmod, chown, and chgrp, that modify
313 permissions, it is possible that the file in question is
314 accessible when control reaches this point. So, if this is
315 the first time we've seen the FTS_NS for this file, tell
316 fts_read to stat it "again". */
317 if (ent
->fts_level
== 0 && ent
->fts_number
== 0)
320 fts_set (fts
, ent
, FTS_AGAIN
);
323 if (! chopt
->force_silent
)
324 error (0, ent
->fts_errno
, _("cannot access %s"),
325 quoteaf (file_full_name
));
330 if (! chopt
->force_silent
)
331 error (0, ent
->fts_errno
, "%s", quotef (file_full_name
));
336 if (! chopt
->force_silent
)
337 error (0, ent
->fts_errno
, _("cannot read directory %s"),
338 quoteaf (file_full_name
));
342 case FTS_DC
: /* directory that causes cycles */
343 if (cycle_warning_required (fts
, ent
))
345 emit_cycle_warning (file_full_name
);
359 else if (required_uid
== (uid_t
) -1 && required_gid
== (gid_t
) -1
360 && chopt
->verbosity
== V_off
361 && ! chopt
->root_dev_ino
362 && ! chopt
->affect_symlink_referent
)
365 file_stats
= ent
->fts_statp
;
369 file_stats
= ent
->fts_statp
;
371 /* If this is a symlink and we're dereferencing them,
372 stat it to get info on the referent. */
373 if (chopt
->affect_symlink_referent
&& S_ISLNK (file_stats
->st_mode
))
375 if (fstatat (fts
->fts_cwd_fd
, file
, &stat_buf
, 0) != 0)
377 if (! chopt
->force_silent
)
378 error (0, errno
, _("cannot dereference %s"),
379 quoteaf (file_full_name
));
383 file_stats
= &stat_buf
;
387 && (required_uid
== (uid_t
) -1
388 || required_uid
== file_stats
->st_uid
)
389 && (required_gid
== (gid_t
) -1
390 || required_gid
== file_stats
->st_gid
));
393 /* This happens when chown -LR --preserve-root encounters a symlink-to-/. */
395 && FTSENT_IS_DIRECTORY (ent
)
396 && ROOT_DEV_INO_CHECK (chopt
->root_dev_ino
, file_stats
))
398 ROOT_DEV_INO_WARN (file_full_name
);
404 if ( ! chopt
->affect_symlink_referent
)
406 ok
= (lchownat (fts
->fts_cwd_fd
, file
, uid
, gid
) == 0);
408 /* Ignore any error due to lack of support; POSIX requires
409 this behavior for top-level symbolic links with -h, and
410 implies that it's required for all symbolic links. */
411 if (!ok
&& errno
== EOPNOTSUPP
)
414 symlink_changed
= false;
419 /* If possible, avoid a race condition with --from=O:G and without the
420 (-h) --no-dereference option. If fts's stat call determined
421 that the uid/gid of FILE matched the --from=O:G-selected
422 owner and group IDs, blindly using chown(2) here could lead
423 chown(1) or chgrp(1) mistakenly to dereference a *symlink*
424 to an arbitrary file that an attacker had moved into the
425 place of FILE during the window between the stat and
426 chown(2) calls. If FILE is a regular file or a directory
427 that can be opened, this race condition can be avoided safely. */
430 = restricted_chown (fts
->fts_cwd_fd
, file
, file_stats
, uid
, gid
,
431 required_uid
, required_gid
);
437 case RC_do_ordinary_chown
:
438 ok
= (chownat (fts
->fts_cwd_fd
, file
, uid
, gid
) == 0);
445 case RC_inode_changed
:
446 /* FIXME: give a diagnostic in this case? */
457 /* On some systems (e.g., GNU/Linux 2.4.x),
458 the chown function resets the 'special' permission bits.
459 Do *not* restore those bits; doing so would open a window in
460 which a malicious user, M, could subvert a chown command run
461 by some other user and operating on files in a directory
462 where M has write access. */
464 if (do_chown
&& !ok
&& ! chopt
->force_silent
)
465 error (0, errno
, (uid
!= (uid_t
) -1
466 ? _("changing ownership of %s")
467 : _("changing group of %s")),
468 quoteaf (file_full_name
));
471 if (chopt
->verbosity
!= V_off
)
474 ((do_chown
&& ok
&& symlink_changed
)
475 && ! ((uid
== (uid_t
) -1 || uid
== file_stats
->st_uid
)
476 && (gid
== (gid_t
) -1 || gid
== file_stats
->st_gid
)));
478 if (changed
|| chopt
->verbosity
== V_high
)
480 enum Change_status ch_status
=
482 : !symlink_changed
? CH_NOT_APPLIED
483 : !changed
? CH_NO_CHANGE_REQUESTED
485 char *old_usr
= file_stats
? uid_to_name (file_stats
->st_uid
) : NULL
;
486 char *old_grp
= file_stats
? gid_to_name (file_stats
->st_gid
) : NULL
;
487 describe_change (file_full_name
, ch_status
,
489 chopt
->user_name
, chopt
->group_name
);
495 if ( ! chopt
->recurse
)
496 fts_set (fts
, ent
, FTS_SKIP
);
501 /* Change the owner and/or group of the specified FILES.
502 BIT_FLAGS specifies how to treat each symlink-to-directory
503 that is encountered during a recursive traversal.
504 CHOPT specifies additional options.
505 If UID is not -1, then change the owner id of each file to UID.
506 If GID is not -1, then change the group id of each file to GID.
507 If REQUIRED_UID and/or REQUIRED_GID is not -1, then change only
508 files with user ID and group ID that match the non-(-1) value(s).
509 Return true if successful. */
511 chown_files (char **files
, int bit_flags
,
512 uid_t uid
, gid_t gid
,
513 uid_t required_uid
, gid_t required_gid
,
514 struct Chown_option
const *chopt
)
518 /* Use lstat and stat only if they're needed. */
519 int stat_flags
= ((required_uid
!= (uid_t
) -1 || required_gid
!= (gid_t
) -1
520 || chopt
->affect_symlink_referent
521 || chopt
->verbosity
!= V_off
)
525 FTS
*fts
= xfts_open (files
, bit_flags
| stat_flags
, NULL
);
531 ent
= fts_read (fts
);
536 /* FIXME: try to give a better message */
537 if (! chopt
->force_silent
)
538 error (0, errno
, _("fts_read failed"));
544 ok
&= change_file_owner (fts
, ent
, uid
, gid
,
545 required_uid
, required_gid
, chopt
);
548 if (fts_close (fts
) != 0)
550 error (0, errno
, _("fts_close failed"));