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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Krisztian Litkey <kli@iki.fi>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Krisztian Litkey <krisztian.litkey@intel.com>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ovl: setxattr: don't deadlock when called from ima_fix_xattr.
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 17:50:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160530165007.GA14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160530141015.GC5758@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu>

	Only tangentially related, but... that bug had been discussed,
without any results: the fallback in ima_d_path() to ->d_name.name is
completely broken.  There is no warranty whatsoever that dentry won't be
renamed, with its earlier (too long to be embedded into dentry itself)
->d_name.name getting freed.  Right under your code.

	Could we please get rid of that thing?  "A message in a near-oom
situation might be less informative than we'd like" is better than
"this code might end up dereferencing freed memory".

	Another similar bug is in ima_collect_measurement() -
        const char *filename = file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
	...
                integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_DATA, inode,
                                    filename, "collect_data", audit_cause,
with no warranty whatsoever that you are not passing a pointer to freed
memory.  The same goes for ima_eventname_init_common() -
        if (event_data->file) {
                cur_filename = event_data->file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
                cur_filename_len = strlen(cur_filename);
        } else  
...
        return ima_write_template_field_data(cur_filename, cur_filename_len,
                                             DATA_FMT_STRING, field_data);

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-30 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1463611500.2465.22.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <1463725718-2461-1-git-send-email-kli@iki.fi>
     [not found]   ` <1463754087.2763.17.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-05-20 16:29     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] ovl: setxattr: don't deadlock when called from ima_fix_xattr Al Viro
2016-05-20 17:00       ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-20 20:53         ` Krisztian Litkey
2016-05-30 14:10           ` Miklos Szeredi
2016-05-30 16:50             ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-05-31  2:15               ` Mimi Zohar
2016-05-31  2:29             ` Mimi Zohar

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