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From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Yama: verify inode is symlink to avoid bind mounts
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:30:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100713223021.GK6104@outflux.net> (raw)

The inode_follow_link LSM hook is called in bind mount situations as
well as for symlink situations, so we must explicitly check for the
inode being a symlink to not reject bind mounts in 1777 directories,
which seems to be a common NFSv4 configuration.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
---
 security/yama/yama_lsm.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index 3b76386..c70eb10 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ static int yama_inode_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!protected_sticky_symlinks)
 		return 0;
 
+	/* if inode isn't a symlink, don't try to evaluate blocking it */
+	if (!S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+		return 0;
+
 	/* owner and follower match? */
 	cred = current_cred();
 	inode = dentry->d_inode;
-- 
1.7.1


-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

             reply	other threads:[~2010-07-13 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 22:30 Kees Cook [this message]
2010-07-14  2:30 ` [PATCH] Yama: verify inode is symlink to avoid bind mounts Serge E. Hallyn
2010-07-14  6:53   ` Kees Cook
2010-07-14  6:12 ` Kees Cook

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