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authorJeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>2010-04-23 13:17:37 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-24 11:31:24 -0700
commitcac36f707119b792b2396aed371d6b5cdc194890 (patch)
treeccb19a68ce1c1aa066d6d13dde51657cba906de6 /fs/reiserfs
parent33eaf788345c0311ab48ae62673c05f59fb09bb3 (diff)
downloadlinux-cac36f707119b792b2396aed371d6b5cdc194890.tar.gz
reiserfs: fix permissions on .reiserfs_priv
Commit 677c9b2e393a0cd203bd54e9c18b012b2c73305a ("reiserfs: remove
privroot hiding in lookup") removed the magic from the lookup code to hide
the .reiserfs_priv directory since it was getting loaded at mount-time
instead.  The intent was that the entry would be hidden from the user via
a poisoned d_compare, but this was faulty.

This introduced a security issue where unprivileged users could access and
modify extended attributes or ACLs belonging to other users, including
root.

This patch resolves the issue by properly hiding .reiserfs_priv.  This was
the intent of the xattr poisoning code, but it appears to have never
worked as expected.  This is fixed by using d_revalidate instead of
d_compare.

This patch makes -oexpose_privroot a no-op.  I'm fine leaving it this way.
The effort involved in working out the corner cases wrt permissions and
caching outweigh the benefit of the feature.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Tested-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/reiserfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/dir.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/xattr.c17
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
index f8a6075abf50..07930449a958 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/dir.c
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ static inline bool is_privroot_deh(struct dentry *dir,
 				   struct reiserfs_de_head *deh)
 {
 	struct dentry *privroot = REISERFS_SB(dir->d_sb)->priv_root;
-	if (reiserfs_expose_privroot(dir->d_sb))
-		return 0;
 	return (dir == dir->d_parent && privroot->d_inode &&
 	        deh->deh_objectid == INODE_PKEY(privroot->d_inode)->k_objectid);
 }
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 4f9586bb7631..28f0a448f3c7 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -973,21 +973,13 @@ int reiserfs_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	return generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
 }
 
-/* This will catch lookups from the fs root to .reiserfs_priv */
-static int
-xattr_lookup_poison(struct dentry *dentry, struct qstr *q1, struct qstr *name)
+static int xattr_hide_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
-	struct dentry *priv_root = REISERFS_SB(dentry->d_sb)->priv_root;
-	if (container_of(q1, struct dentry, d_name) == priv_root)
-		return -ENOENT;
-	if (q1->len == name->len &&
-		   !memcmp(q1->name, name->name, name->len))
-		return 0;
-	return 1;
+	return -EPERM;
 }
 
 static const struct dentry_operations xattr_lookup_poison_ops = {
-	.d_compare = xattr_lookup_poison,
+	.d_revalidate = xattr_hide_revalidate,
 };
 
 int reiserfs_lookup_privroot(struct super_block *s)
@@ -1001,8 +993,7 @@ int reiserfs_lookup_privroot(struct super_block *s)
 				strlen(PRIVROOT_NAME));
 	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
 		REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root = dentry;
-		if (!reiserfs_expose_privroot(s))
-			s->s_root->d_op = &xattr_lookup_poison_ops;
+		dentry->d_op = &xattr_lookup_poison_ops;
 		if (dentry->d_inode)
 			dentry->d_inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
 	} else