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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs: fix vulnerability in openat_dir() and local_unlinkat_common()
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 09:17:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25006c6b-915c-a0a0-a85a-89cee74e0ed4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170304122139.63796173@bahia.lan>

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On 03/04/2017 05:21 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017 17:43:49 -0600
> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> 

> It is acceptable to ignore O_PATH here because we have O_DIRECTORY, and
> we know openat_dir() will hence fail. But this code sits in a header
> file, and we probably don't want O_PATH to be silently converted to 0 in
> other potential cases where it is used without O_DIRECTORY.
> 
> I'd rather do something like the following then:
> 
> #ifdef O_PATH
> #define OPENAT_DIR_O_PATH O_PATH
> #else
> #define OPENAT_DIR_O_PATH 0
> #endif
> 
> Makes sense ?

Yes, that's reasonable.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-04 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-03 17:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs: fix vulnerability in openat_dir() and local_unlinkat_common() Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 17:28 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-03-03 17:54 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-03-03 19:04   ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 18:14 ` Eric Blake
2017-03-03 19:08   ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-03 23:43   ` Eric Blake
2017-03-04 11:21     ` Greg Kurz
2017-03-04 13:55       ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2017-03-04 15:17       ` Eric Blake [this message]

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