linux-stable.git/fs/attr.c, branch v4.14.331

attr: block mode changes of symlinks

2023-09-23T08:47:05+00:00

commit 5d1f903f75a80daa4dfb3d84e114ec8ecbf29956 upstream.

Changing the mode of symlinks is meaningless as the vfs doesn't take the
mode of a symlink into account during path lookup permission checking.

However, the vfs doesn't block mode changes on symlinks. This however,
has lead to an untenable mess roughly classifiable into the following
two categories:

(1) Filesystems that don't implement a i_op->setattr() for symlinks.

    Such filesystems may or may not know that without i_op->setattr()
    defined, notify_change() falls back to simple_setattr() causing the
    inode's mode in the inode cache to be changed.

    That's a generic issue as this will affect all non-size changing
    inode attributes including ownership changes.

    Example: afs

(2) Filesystems that fail with EOPNOTSUPP but change the mode of the
    symlink nonetheless.

    Some filesystems will happily update the mode of a symlink but still
    return EOPNOTSUPP. This is the biggest source of confusion for
    userspace.

    The EOPNOTSUPP in this case comes from POSIX ACLs. Specifically it
    comes from filesystems that call posix_acl_chmod(), e.g., btrfs via

        if (!err && attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)
                err = posix_acl_chmod(idmap, dentry, inode->i_mode);

    Filesystems including btrfs don't implement i_op->set_acl() so
    posix_acl_chmod() will report EOPNOTSUPP.

    When posix_acl_chmod() is called, most filesystems will have
    finished updating the inode.

    Perversely, this has the consequences that this behavior may depend
    on two kconfig options and mount options:

    * CONFIG_POSIX_ACL={y,n}
    * CONFIG_${FSTYPE}_POSIX_ACL={y,n}
    * Opt_acl, Opt_noacl

    Example: btrfs, ext4, xfs

The only way to change the mode on a symlink currently involves abusing
an O_PATH file descriptor in the following manner:

        fd = openat(-1, "/path/to/link", O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW);

        char path[PATH_MAX];
        snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd);
        chmod(path, 0000);

But for most major filesystems with POSIX ACL support such as btrfs,
ext4, ceph, tmpfs, xfs and others this will fail with EOPNOTSUPP with
the mode still updated due to the aforementioned posix_acl_chmod()
nonsense.

So, given that for all major filesystems this would fail with EOPNOTSUPP
and that both glibc (cf. [1]) and musl (cf. [2]) outright block mode
changes on symlinks we should just try and block mode changes on
symlinks directly in the vfs and have a clean break with this nonsense.

If this causes any regressions, we do the next best thing and fix up all
filesystems that do return EOPNOTSUPP with the mode updated to not call
posix_acl_chmod() on symlinks.

But as usual, let's try the clean cut solution first. It's a simple
patch that can be easily reverted. Not marking this for backport as I'll
do that manually if we're reasonably sure that this works and there are
no strong objections.

We could block this in chmod_common() but it's more appropriate to do it
notify_change() as it will also mean that we catch filesystems that
change symlink permissions explicitly or accidently.

Similar proposals were floated in the past as in [3] and [4] and again
recently in [5]. There's also a couple of bugs about this inconsistency
as in [6] and [7].

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=99527a3727e44cb8661ee1f743068f108ec93979;hb=HEAD [1]
Link: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200911065733.GA31579@infradead.org [3]
Link: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2020-02/msg00518.html [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87lefmbppo.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com [5]
Link: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2020-02/msg00467.html [6]
Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14578#c17 [7]
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # please backport to all LTSes but not before v6.6-rc2 is tagged
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Suggested-by: Florian Weimer 
Message-Id: <20230712-vfs-chmod-symlinks-v2-1-08cfb92b61dd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vfs: Check the truncate maximum size in inode_newsize_ok()

2022-08-25T09:11:11+00:00

commit e2ebff9c57fe4eb104ce4768f6ebcccf76bef849 upstream.

If something manages to set the maximum file size to MAX_OFFSET+1, this
can cause the xfs and ext4 filesystems at least to become corrupt.

Ordinarily, the kernel protects against userspace trying this by
checking the value early in the truncate() and ftruncate() system calls
calls - but there are at least two places that this check is bypassed:

 (1) Cachefiles will round up the EOF of the backing file to DIO block
     size so as to allow DIO on the final block - but this might push
     the offset negative. It then calls notify_change(), but this
     inadvertently bypasses the checking. This can be triggered if
     someone puts an 8EiB-1 file on a server for someone else to try and
     access by, say, nfs.

 (2) ksmbd doesn't check the value it is given in set_end_of_file_info()
     and then calls vfs_truncate() directly - which also bypasses the
     check.

In both cases, it is potentially possible for a network filesystem to
cause a disk filesystem to be corrupted: cachefiles in the client's
cache filesystem; ksmbd in the server's filesystem.

nfsd is okay as it checks the value, but we can then remove this check
too.

Fix this by adding a check to inode_newsize_ok(), as called from
setattr_prepare(), thereby catching the issue as filesystems set up to
perform the truncate with minimal opportunity for bypassing the new
check.

Fixes: 1f08c925e7a3 ("cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling")
Fixes: f44158485826 ("cifsd: add file operations")
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reported-by: Jeff Layton 
Tested-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Alexander Viro 
cc: Steve French 
cc: Hyunchul Lee 
cc: Chuck Lever 
cc: Dave Wysochanski 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-10-11T03:16:43+00:00

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 ">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
  vfs: Add current_time() api
  vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
  fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
  vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
  fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
  libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
  fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
  ncpfs: fix unused variable warning

Merge remote-tracking branch 'jk/vfs' into work.misc

2016-10-08T15:06:08+00:00

fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()

2016-09-28T01:06:22+00:00

current_fs_time() uses struct super_block* as an argument.
As per Linus's suggestion, this is changed to take struct
inode* as a parameter instead. This is because the function
is primarily meant for vfs inode timestamps.
Also the function was renamed as per Arnd's suggestion.

Change all calls to current_fs_time() to use the new
current_time() function instead. current_fs_time() will be
deleted.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities

2016-09-22T08:56:19+00:00

Currently, notify_change() clears capabilities or IMA attributes by
calling security_inode_killpriv() before calling into ->setattr. Thus it
happens before any other permission checks in inode_change_ok() and user
is thus allowed to trigger clearing of capabilities or IMA attributes
for any file he can look up e.g. by calling chown for that file. This is
unexpected and can lead to user DoSing a system.

Fix the problem by calling security_inode_killpriv() at the end of
inode_change_ok() instead of from notify_change(). At that moment we are
sure user has permissions to do the requested change.

References: CVE-2015-1350
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode

2016-09-22T08:56:19+00:00

inode_change_ok() will be resposible for clearing capabilities and IMA
extended attributes and as such will need dentry. Give it as an argument
to inode_change_ok() instead of an inode. Also rename inode_change_ok()
to setattr_prepare() to better relect that it does also some
modifications in addition to checks.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

vfs: move permission checking into notify_change() for utimes(NULL)

2016-09-16T10:44:20+00:00

This fixes a bug where the permission was not properly checked in
overlayfs.  The testcase is ltp/utimensat01.

It is also cleaner and safer to do the permission checking in the vfs
helper instead of the caller.

This patch introduces an additional ia_valid flag ATTR_TOUCH (since
touch(1) is the most obvious user of utimes(NULL)) that is passed into
notify_change whenever the conditions for this special permission checking
mode are met.

Reported-by: Aihua Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Tested-by: Aihua Zhang 
Cc:  # v3.18+