Merge branch 'perm-fix' into omap-for-v4.19/fixes-v2

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 18989b5b3b56..97d86dc17c42 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -35,6 +35,25 @@ const void *kobject_namespace(struct kobject *kobj)
 	return kobj->ktype->namespace(kobj);
 }
 
+/**
+ * kobject_get_ownership - get sysfs ownership data for @kobj
+ * @kobj: kobject in question
+ * @uid: kernel user ID for sysfs objects
+ * @gid: kernel group ID for sysfs objects
+ *
+ * Returns initial uid/gid pair that should be used when creating sysfs
+ * representation of given kobject. Normally used to adjust ownership of
+ * objects in a container.
+ */
+void kobject_get_ownership(struct kobject *kobj, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
+{
+	*uid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID;
+	*gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID;
+
+	if (kobj->ktype->get_ownership)
+		kobj->ktype->get_ownership(kobj, uid, gid);
+}
+
 /*
  * populate_dir - populate directory with attributes.
  * @kobj: object we're working on.
@@ -125,7 +144,7 @@ static void fill_kobj_path(struct kobject *kobj, char *path, int length)
 		int cur = strlen(kobject_name(parent));
 		/* back up enough to print this name with '/' */
 		length -= cur;
-		strncpy(path + length, kobject_name(parent), cur);
+		memcpy(path + length, kobject_name(parent), cur);
 		*(path + --length) = '/';
 	}
 
@@ -868,9 +887,16 @@ static void kset_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 	kfree(kset);
 }
 
+void kset_get_ownership(struct kobject *kobj, kuid_t *uid, kgid_t *gid)
+{
+	if (kobj->parent)
+		kobject_get_ownership(kobj->parent, uid, gid);
+}
+
 static struct kobj_type kset_ktype = {
 	.sysfs_ops	= &kobj_sysfs_ops,
-	.release = kset_release,
+	.release	= kset_release,
+	.get_ownership	= kset_get_ownership,
 };
 
 /**