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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com,
	corbet@lwn.net, serue@us.ibm.com, neilb@suse.de,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com,
	philippe.deniel@CEA.FR, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 2/9] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 22:50:09 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14013.1274277009@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aarwkzsi.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


"Aneesh Kumar K. V":
> How about the below patch ?
>
> commit 5f421ffbe9dd7bb84c5992b1725c06b511bc76d8
> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Wed May 19 14:52:44 2010 +0530
>
>     vfs: Return ENOSYS if CONFIG_EXPORTFS is not enabled

Of course, I have no objection. :-)

Let me make sure some other issues.
If a malicious user passes altered dirfd or handle parameters, then
these things may happen.
- opens another file.
  But it should not be a security hole, because finish_open_handle()
  calls may_open() and the permission bits are tested expectedly.
- kernel crashes.
  If s_export_op->fh_to_dentry() expects the passed handle is always
  correct, then it may crash. But this is a problem of FS, instead of
  open_by_handle().
- returns an error.
  It is a matter of the application.
Right?

And the decode routine may return an anonymous (disconnected) dentry.
In this case, if LSM detects something wrong and produces a message,
then the filename will not be printed correctly.
This is not a problem of open_by_handle() either. Right?


J. R. Okajima

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17  5:33 [PATCH -V8 0/9] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 1/9] exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 2/9] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-18  2:33   ` J. R. Okajima
2010-05-18  5:40     ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-05-18  6:18       ` J. R. Okajima
2010-05-18  6:58         ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-05-18  6:43       ` Dave Chinner
2010-05-18 10:17         ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-05-19  7:15           ` J. R. Okajima
2010-05-19  8:52             ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-05-19  9:26               ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-05-19 13:50                 ` J. R. Okajima [this message]
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 3/9] vfs: Add open by file handle support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 4/9] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 5/9] vfs: Support null pathname in readlink Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 6/9] ext4: Add get_fsid callback Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 7/9] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 8/9] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-05-17  5:33 ` [PATCH -V8 9/9] ext3: Add get_fsid callback Aneesh Kumar K.V

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