Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] 9pfs security fixes

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:39:13 -0400
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 30 August 2016 at 14:29, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On 30 August 2016 at 18:10, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:  
> >> As reported by Felix Wilhelm, at various places in 9pfs, full paths are
> >> created by concatenating a guest originated string to the export path. A
> >> malicious guest could forge a relative path and access files outside the
> >> export path.
> >>
> >> A tentative fix was sent recently by Prasad J Pandit, but it was only
> >> focused on the local backend and did not get a positive review. This series
> >> tries to address the issue more globally, based on the official 9P spec.
> >>
> >> I wasn't running the TUXERA test suite correctly and overlooked a failure
> >> with symbolic links (thanks Aneesh for your assistance). This v4 is basically
> >> the same as v3 with a change in patch 1/3.
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Greg Kurz (3):
> >>       9pfs: forbid illegal path names
> >>       9pfs: forbid . and .. in file names
> >>       9pfs: handle walk of ".." in the root directory  
> >
> > I see the cover letter and patches 1 and 2 in my email client
> > and in patchwork. Where is patch 3? (If it's identical to the v3
> > patch 3 I can get that...)  
> 
> Ah, it just arrived. Applied all to master, thanks.
> 
> -- PMM
> 

FWIW, this also applies to 2.6.1.

Cheers.

--
Greg