fusefrontend: -allow_other: Use MknodatUser in Mknod FUSE call.

Instead of manually adjusting the user and mode after creating the
device file, adjust effective permissions and let the kernel deal
with it.

Related to https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/338.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/syscallcompat/sys_linux.go b/internal/syscallcompat/sys_linux.go
index a431195..cf747b1 100644
--- a/internal/syscallcompat/sys_linux.go
+++ b/internal/syscallcompat/sys_linux.go
@@ -113,6 +113,28 @@ func Mknodat(dirfd int, path string, mode uint32, dev int) (err error) {
 	return syscall.Mknodat(dirfd, path, mode, dev)
 }
 
+// MknodatUser runs the Mknodat syscall in the context of a different user.
+func MknodatUser(dirfd int, path string, mode uint32, dev int, context *fuse.Context) (err error) {
+	if context != nil {
+		runtime.LockOSThread()
+		defer runtime.UnlockOSThread()
+
+		err = syscall.Setregid(-1, int(context.Owner.Gid))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		defer syscall.Setregid(-1, 0)
+
+		err = syscall.Setreuid(-1, int(context.Owner.Uid))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		defer syscall.Setreuid(-1, 0)
+	}
+
+	return Mknodat(dirfd, path, mode, dev)
+}
+
 // Dup3 wraps the Dup3 syscall. We want to use Dup3 rather than Dup2 because Dup2
 // is not implemented on arm64.
 func Dup3(oldfd int, newfd int, flags int) (err error) {