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If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amir Goldstein commit e6b9117076fb4c0ff4a670efa9c876d9a50d79ab upstream. Adapt ovl_getxattr_value() to be used from ovl_copy_xattr(), by allowing to pass it a pre-allocated buffer, which can be resized and by handling the ENODATA/EOPNOTSUPP return codes in the caller. This replaces the retry loop in ovl_copy_xattr() with a single retry after resizing the buffer. If the value changed again by then, the underlying layer was modified, so return -EIO instead of retrying. As a side effect, ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data() now returns -EIO instead of -ERANGE in this case of underlying xattr size changes. Reported-by: Fahad Alharbi Tested-by: Fahad Alharbi Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJfpegsVoUyqy0dYkTvBGRZvgdv_nmzmCw_uF+LP-Vq3EhEkSg@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: e4ad29fa0d22 ("ovl: use a minimal buffer in ovl_copy_xattr") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static int ovl_copy_acl(struct ovl_fs *o return err; } +static ssize_t ovl_getxattr_value(const struct path *path, char *name, + char **value, ssize_t *value_size); + int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, const struct path *oldpath, struct dentry *new) { struct dentry *old = oldpath->dentry; @@ -129,34 +132,12 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *s break; } -retry: - size = ovl_do_getxattr(oldpath, name, value, value_size); - if (size == -ERANGE) { - size = ovl_do_getxattr(oldpath, name, NULL, 0); - /* Nothing was read into value, so it must not be used */ - if (size >= 0 && size <= value_size) - size = -EIO; - } - + size = ovl_getxattr_value(oldpath, name, &value, &value_size); if (size < 0) { error = size; break; } - if (size > value_size) { - void *new; - - new = kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!new) { - error = -ENOMEM; - break; - } - kvfree(value); - value = new; - value_size = size; - goto retry; - } - error = ovl_do_setxattr(OVL_FS(sb), new, name, value, size, 0); if (error) { if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP || ovl_must_copy_xattr(name)) @@ -1082,26 +1063,39 @@ static bool ovl_need_meta_copy_up(struct return true; } -static ssize_t ovl_getxattr_value(const struct path *path, char *name, char **value) +static ssize_t ovl_getxattr_value(const struct path *path, char *name, + char **value, ssize_t *value_size) { ssize_t res; char *buf; - res = ovl_do_getxattr(path, name, NULL, 0); - if (res == -ENODATA || res == -EOPNOTSUPP) - res = 0; + res = ovl_do_getxattr(path, name, *value, *value_size); + if (res == -ERANGE) { + res = ovl_do_getxattr(path, name, NULL, 0); + /* Xattr changed underneath us? */ + if (res >= 0 && res <= *value_size) + return -EIO; + } - if (res > 0) { - buf = kzalloc(res, GFP_KERNEL); + if (res > *value_size) { + buf = kvmalloc(res, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; res = ovl_do_getxattr(path, name, buf, res); - if (res < 0) - kfree(buf); - else - *value = buf; + if (res < 0) { + kvfree(buf); + /* Xattr changed underneath us? */ + if (res == -ERANGE) + return -EIO; + return res; + } + + kvfree(*value); + *value = buf; + *value_size = res; } + return res; } @@ -1112,7 +1106,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(s struct path upperpath; int err; char *capability = NULL; - ssize_t cap_size; + ssize_t cap_size = 0; ovl_path_upper(c->dentry, &upperpath); if (WARN_ON(upperpath.dentry == NULL)) @@ -1120,7 +1114,9 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(s if (c->stat.size) { err = cap_size = ovl_getxattr_value(&upperpath, XATTR_NAME_CAPS, - &capability); + &capability, &cap_size); + if (cap_size == -ENODATA || cap_size == -EOPNOTSUPP) + cap_size = 0; if (cap_size < 0) goto out; } @@ -1150,7 +1146,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(s ovl_clear_flag(OVL_VERIFIED_DIGEST, d_inode(c->dentry)); ovl_set_upperdata(d_inode(c->dentry)); out_free: - kfree(capability); + kvfree(capability); out: return err; }