FAILED: patch "[PATCH] kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From bdcf0a423ea1c40bbb40e7ee483b50fc8aa3d758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:33:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info
 allocators

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
index f04db3779b34..59eea9c65d3e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(s390_setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, u16 __user *, grouplis
 		return retval;
 	}
 
+	groups_sort(group_info);
 	retval = set_current_groups(group_info);
 	put_group_info(group_info);
 
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/auth.c b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
index 697f8ae7792d..f650e475d8f0 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/auth.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ int nfsd_setuser(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp)
 				gi->gid[i] = exp->ex_anon_gid;
 			else
 				gi->gid[i] = rqgi->gid[i];
+
+			/* Each thread allocates its own gi, no race */
+			groups_sort(gi);
 		}
 	} else {
 		gi = get_group_info(rqgi);
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index 099058e1178b..631286535d0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ extern int set_current_groups(struct group_info *);
 extern void set_groups(struct cred *, struct group_info *);
 extern int groups_search(const struct group_info *, kgid_t);
 extern bool may_setgroups(void);
+extern void groups_sort(struct group_info *);
 
 /*
  * The security context of a task
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index e357bc800111..daae2f2dc6d4 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ static int gid_cmp(const void *_a, const void *_b)
 	return gid_gt(a, b) - gid_lt(a, b);
 }
 
-static void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
+void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
 {
 	sort(group_info->gid, group_info->ngroups, sizeof(*group_info->gid),
 	     gid_cmp, NULL);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(groups_sort);
 
 /* a simple bsearch */
 int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, kgid_t grp)
@@ -122,7 +123,6 @@ int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, kgid_t grp)
 void set_groups(struct cred *new, struct group_info *group_info)
 {
 	put_group_info(new->group_info);
-	groups_sort(group_info);
 	get_group_info(group_info);
 	new->group_info = group_info;
 }
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups, int, gidsetsize, gid_t __user *, grouplist)
 		return retval;
 	}
 
+	groups_sort(group_info);
 	retval = set_current_groups(group_info);
 	put_group_info(group_info);
 
diff --git a/kernel/uid16.c b/kernel/uid16.c
index ce74a4901d2b..ef1da2a5f9bd 100644
--- a/kernel/uid16.c
+++ b/kernel/uid16.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, old_gid_t __user *, grouplist)
 		return retval;
 	}
 
+	groups_sort(group_info);
 	retval = set_current_groups(group_info);
 	put_group_info(group_info);
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c
index c4778cae58ef..444380f968f1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ static int gssx_dec_linux_creds(struct xdr_stream *xdr,
 			goto out_free_groups;
 		creds->cr_group_info->gid[i] = kgid;
 	}
+	groups_sort(creds->cr_group_info);
 
 	return 0;
 out_free_groups:
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
index 5dd4e6c9fef2..26531193fce4 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ static int rsc_parse(struct cache_detail *cd,
 				goto out;
 			rsci.cred.cr_group_info->gid[i] = kgid;
 		}
+		groups_sort(rsci.cred.cr_group_info);
 
 		/* mech name */
 		len = qword_get(&mesg, buf, mlen);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c b/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
index 740b67d5a733..af7f28fb8102 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ static int unix_gid_parse(struct cache_detail *cd,
 		ug.gi->gid[i] = kgid;
 	}
 
+	groups_sort(ug.gi);
 	ugp = unix_gid_lookup(cd, uid);
 	if (ugp) {
 		struct cache_head *ch;
@@ -819,6 +820,7 @@ svcauth_unix_accept(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *authp)
 		kgid_t kgid = make_kgid(&init_user_ns, svc_getnl(argv));
 		cred->cr_group_info->gid[i] = kgid;
 	}
+	groups_sort(cred->cr_group_info);
 	if (svc_getu32(argv) != htonl(RPC_AUTH_NULL) || svc_getu32(argv) != 0) {
 		*authp = rpc_autherr_badverf;
 		return SVC_DENIED;