Re: [patch] posix_acl: cleanup posix_acl_create()

[Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>]

Hi, Dan,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 10:31:24PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If posix_acl_create() returns an error code then "*acl" and
> "*default_acl" can be uninitialized or point to freed memory.  This
> causes problems in some of the callers where it is expected that they
> are NULL on error.  For example, ocfs2_reflink() has a bug.
> 
> 	fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c:4329 ocfs2_reflink()
> 	error: potentially using uninitialized 'default_acl'.
> 
> I have re-written this function and re-arranged things so that they are
> set to NULL at the start and then only set to a valid pointer at the end
> of the function.
> 
I'm inclined to blame ocfs2 and not posix_acl_create() here. I'd imagine
that most C programmers' intuition is generally not to trust any return
parameters when the return value is an error. Accordingly, a quick scan
of the tree showed that all of the other users of posix_acl_create() are
doing it correctly and only calling posix_acl_release() when it returns
success.

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
> index 0855f77..66d2c13 100644
> --- a/fs/posix_acl.c
> +++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
> @@ -546,50 +546,43 @@ int
>  posix_acl_create(struct inode *dir, umode_t *mode,
>  		struct posix_acl **default_acl, struct posix_acl **acl)
>  {
> -	struct posix_acl *p;
> +	struct posix_acl *p, *clone;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	*acl = NULL;
> +	*default_acl = NULL;
> +
>  	if (S_ISLNK(*mode) || !IS_POSIXACL(dir))
> -		goto no_acl;
> +		return 0;
>  
>  	p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
> -	if (IS_ERR(p)) {
> -		if (p = ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP))
> -			goto apply_umask;
> -		return PTR_ERR(p);
> +	if (!p || p = ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP)) {
> +		*mode &= ~current_umask();
> +		return 0;
>  	}
> +	if (IS_ERR(p))
> +		return PTR_ERR(p);
>  
> -	if (!p)
> -		goto apply_umask;
> -
> -	*acl = posix_acl_clone(p, GFP_NOFS);
> -	if (!*acl)
> +	clone = posix_acl_clone(p, GFP_NOFS);
> +	if (!clone)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	ret = posix_acl_create_masq(*acl, mode);
> +	ret = posix_acl_create_masq(clone, mode);
>  	if (ret < 0) {
> -		posix_acl_release(*acl);
> +		posix_acl_release(clone);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (ret = 0) {
> -		posix_acl_release(*acl);
> -		*acl = NULL;
> -	}
> +	if (ret = 0)
> +		posix_acl_release(clone);
> +	else
> +		*acl = clone;
>  
> -	if (!S_ISDIR(*mode)) {
> +	if (!S_ISDIR(*mode))
>  		posix_acl_release(p);
> -		*default_acl = NULL;
> -	} else {
> +	else
>  		*default_acl = p;
> -	}
> -	return 0;
>  
> -apply_umask:
> -	*mode &= ~current_umask();
> -no_acl:
> -	*default_acl = NULL;
> -	*acl = NULL;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(posix_acl_create);
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

-- 
Omar