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From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
To: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Cc: ReiserFS Mailing List <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH #3] reiserfs: Fix permissions on .reiserfs_priv
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:55:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBE42A9.2010506@suse.com> (raw)

 Commit 677c9b2e393a0cd203bd54e9c18b012b2c73305a removed the magic
 from the lookup code to hide the .reiserfs_priv directory since it
 was getting loaded at mount-time instead. The intent was that the
 entry would be hidden from the user via a poisoned d_compare, but
 this was faulty.

 This introduced a security issue where unpriviledged users could
 access and modify extended attributes or ACLs belonging to other
 users, including root.

 This patch resolves the issue by properly hiding .reiserfs_priv. This
 was the intent of the xattr poisoning code, but it appears to have
 never worked as expected. This is fixed by using d_revalidate instead
 of d_compare.

 This patch makes -oexpose_privroot a no-op. I'm fine leaving it this
 way. The effort involved in working out the corner cases wrt permissions
 and caching outweigh the benefit of the feature.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
---

 fs/reiserfs/dir.c   |    2 --
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |   17 ++++-------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ static inline bool is_privroot_deh(struc
 				   struct reiserfs_de_head *deh)
 {
 	struct dentry *privroot = REISERFS_SB(dir->d_sb)->priv_root;
-	if (reiserfs_expose_privroot(dir->d_sb))
-		return 0;
 	return (dir == dir->d_parent && privroot->d_inode &&
 	        deh->deh_objectid == INODE_PKEY(privroot->d_inode)->k_objectid);
 }
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -972,21 +972,13 @@ int reiserfs_permission(struct inode *in
 	return generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
 }
 
-/* This will catch lookups from the fs root to .reiserfs_priv */
-static int
-xattr_lookup_poison(struct dentry *dentry, struct qstr *q1, struct qstr *name)
+static int xattr_hide_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
-	struct dentry *priv_root = REISERFS_SB(dentry->d_sb)->priv_root;
-	if (container_of(q1, struct dentry, d_name) == priv_root)
-		return -ENOENT;
-	if (q1->len == name->len &&
-		   !memcmp(q1->name, name->name, name->len))
-		return 0;
-	return 1;
+	return -EPERM;
 }
 
 static const struct dentry_operations xattr_lookup_poison_ops = {
-	.d_compare = xattr_lookup_poison,
+	.d_revalidate = xattr_hide_revalidate,
 };
 
 int reiserfs_lookup_privroot(struct super_block *s)
@@ -1000,8 +992,7 @@ int reiserfs_lookup_privroot(struct supe
 				strlen(PRIVROOT_NAME));
 	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
 		REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root = dentry;
-		if (!reiserfs_expose_privroot(s))
-			s->s_root->d_op = &xattr_lookup_poison_ops;
+		dentry->d_op = &xattr_lookup_poison_ops;
 		if (dentry->d_inode)
 			dentry->d_inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
 	} else

             reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 20:55 Jeff Mahoney [this message]
2010-04-08 21:38 ` [PATCH #3] reiserfs: Fix permissions on .reiserfs_priv Edward Shishkin
2010-04-08 22:39   ` Matt McCutchen
2010-04-09  0:04     ` Jeff Mahoney

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