From 8867d73420c39b3147e8d1d6910628fe8da99891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 14:41:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] reject extraneous data passed to mode

strictly permissions are allowed, file type info should not be passed in
alternate fixes #14771
---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
index 8d5963a1f02..c63cb7c84ad 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py
@@ -890,6 +890,10 @@ class AnsibleModule(object):
                                    msg="mode must be in octal or symbolic form",
                                    details=str(e))
 
+                if mode != stat.S_IMODE(mode):
+                    # prevent mode from having extra info orbeing invalid long number
+                    self.fail_json(path=path, msg="Invalid mode supplied", details=str(e))
+
         prev_mode = stat.S_IMODE(path_stat.st_mode)
 
         if prev_mode != mode: