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* [PATCH] cgroup: initialize xattr before calling d_instantiate()
@ 2013-05-14 11:44 Li Zefan
       [not found] ` <51922394.2020002-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Li Zefan @ 2013-05-14 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tejun Heo; +Cc: LSM, LKML, Cgroups, Containers, Casey Schaufler, Ivan Bulatovic

cgroup_create_file() calls d_instantiate(), which may decide to look
at the xattrs on the file. Smack always does this and SELinux can be
configured to do so.

But cgroup_add_file() didn't initialize xattrs before calling
cgroup_create_file(), which finally leads to dereferencing NULL
dentry->d_fsdata.

This bug has been there since cgroup xattr was introduced.

Cc: <stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org> # 3.8.x
Reported-by: Ivan Bulatovic <combuster-fd97jBR+K/7gvPn8nOUGzA@public.gmane.org>
Reported-by: Casey Schaufler <casey-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 2a99262..38b1365 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -2699,13 +2699,14 @@ static int cgroup_add_file(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_subsys *subsys,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	cfe->type = (void *)cft;
+	cfe->dentry = dentry;
+	dentry->d_fsdata = cfe;
+	simple_xattrs_init(&cfe->xattrs);
+
 	mode = cgroup_file_mode(cft);
 	error = cgroup_create_file(dentry, mode | S_IFREG, cgrp->root->sb);
 	if (!error) {
-		cfe->type = (void *)cft;
-		cfe->dentry = dentry;
-		dentry->d_fsdata = cfe;
-		simple_xattrs_init(&cfe->xattrs);
 		list_add_tail(&cfe->node, &parent->files);
 		cfe = NULL;
 	}
-- 
1.8.0.2

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* Re: [PATCH] cgroup: initialize xattr before calling d_instantiate()
       [not found] ` <51922394.2020002-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
@ 2013-05-14 15:38   ` Tejun Heo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Tejun Heo @ 2013-05-14 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Li Zefan; +Cc: Containers, LKML, LSM, Casey Schaufler, Cgroups, Ivan Bulatovic

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:44:20PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> cgroup_create_file() calls d_instantiate(), which may decide to look
> at the xattrs on the file. Smack always does this and SELinux can be
> configured to do so.
> 
> But cgroup_add_file() didn't initialize xattrs before calling
> cgroup_create_file(), which finally leads to dereferencing NULL
> dentry->d_fsdata.
> 
> This bug has been there since cgroup xattr was introduced.
> 
> Cc: <stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org> # 3.8.x
> Reported-by: Ivan Bulatovic <combuster-fd97jBR+K/7gvPn8nOUGzA@public.gmane.org>
> Reported-by: Casey Schaufler <casey-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Applied to cgroup/for-3.10-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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