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[80.187.86.54]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-c50957c6c1fsm75151566b.0.2026.11.13.01.54.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:54:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 01/41] loop: refuse backing files that aren't open for reading From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn To: Christian Brauner , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jann Horn , Chris Mason , Josef Bacik , Christoph Hellwig , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Alexander Viro , Jan Kara , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org, apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, Amir Goldstein , linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:54:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20261110-work-loop-pseudo-v1-1-4c998976c6c7@kernel.org> References: <20261110-work-loop-pseudo-v1-0-4c998976c6c7@kernel.org> <20261110-work-loop-pseudo-v1-1-4c998976c6c7@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2-0+deb13u1 X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 2026-11-10 at 10:14 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > loop_configure() takes any file as long as it implements - > >read_iter(). > Loop itself never checked whether the file was actually opened for > reading. Buffered I/O went through vfs_iter_read() which refuses > files > without FMODE_READ. Direct I/O has called ->read_iter() of the > backing > file directly ever since loop grew support for it. >=20 > Since commit f2fed441c69b ("loop: stop using vfs_iter_{read,write} > for > buffered I/O") buffered I/O calls ->read_iter() directly as well. > That > commit was about O_DIRECT handling and the FMODE_READ check went away > as a side effect. >=20 > So whoever can set up a loop device can read a file it was only > allowed > to open for writing. Open the file O_WRONLY, configure a loop device > with it and read the contents through the loop device. >=20 > Refuse backing files that aren't open for reading. Loop always reads > from its backing file so a write-only backing file never made sense > in > the first place. >=20 > Fixes: bc07c10a3603 ("block: loop: support DIO & AIO") > Fixes: f2fed441c69b ("loop: stop using vfs_iter_{read,write} for > buffered I/O") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn > --- > =C2=A0drivers/block/loop.c | 3 +++ > =C2=A01 file changed, 3 insertions(+) >=20 > diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c > index a3325ceab484..c96e35c3ef42 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/loop.c > +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c > @@ -528,6 +528,9 @@ static void loop_assign_backing_file(struct > loop_device *lo, struct file *file) > =C2=A0 > =C2=A0static int loop_check_backing_file(struct file *file) > =C2=A0{ > + if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ)) > + return -EBADF; > + > =C2=A0 if (!file->f_op->read_iter) > =C2=A0 return -EINVAL; > =C2=A0