linux-stable.git/fs, branch linux-2.6.18.y

fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

2007-02-23T23:49:53+00:00

Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2
or ext3 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by
a kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating
inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666,
and mkdir creates directories as 0777.

This appears to have worked right until 2.6.11, when a fix to the default
mode on symlinks (always 0777) assumed VFS applies umask: which it does,
unless the mount is marked for ACLs; but ext[23] set MS_POSIXACL in
s_flags according to s_mount_opt set according to def_mount_opts.

We could revert to the 2.6.10 ext[23]_init_acl (adding an S_ISLNK test);
but other filesystems only set MS_POSIXACL when ACLs are configured.  We
could fix this at another level; but it seems most robust to avoid setting
the s_mount_opt flag in the first place (at the expense of more ifdefs).

Likewise don't set the XATTR_USER flag when built without XATTR support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Cc: Tigran Aivazian 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hfs_fill_super returns success even if no root inode (CVE-2006-6056)

2007-02-23T23:49:51+00:00

http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/2006/11/mokb-14-11-2006-linux-26x-selinux.html

mount that image...
fs: filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only.
hfs: get root inode failed.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018
 printing eip
...
EIP is at superblock_doinit+0x21/0x767
...
 [] selinux_sb_kern_mount+0xc/0x4b
 [] vfs_kern_mount+0x99/0xf6
 [] do_kern_mount+0x2d/0x3e
 [] do_mount+0x5fa/0x66d
 [] sys_mount+0x77/0xae
 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call+0x7/0xb

hfs_fill_super() returns success even if
  root_inode = hfs_iget(sb, &fd.search_key->cat, &rec);
or
  sb->s_root = d_alloc_root(root_inode);

fails.  This superblock finds its way to superblock_doinit() which does:

        struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
        struct inode *inode = root->d_inode;

and boom.  Need to make sure the error cases return an error, I think.

[akpm@osdl.org: return -ENOMEM on oom]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

grow_buffers() infinite loop fix (CVE-2006-5757, CVE-2006-6060)

2007-02-23T23:49:51+00:00

If grow_buffers() is for some reason passed a block number which wants to lie
outside the maximum-addressable pagecache range (PAGE_SIZE * 4G bytes) then it
will accidentally truncate `index' and will then instnatiate a page at the
wrong pagecache offset.  This causes __getblk_slow() to go into an infinite
loop.

This can happen with corrupted disks, or with software errors elsewhere.

Detect that, and handle it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Fix a free-wrong-pointer bug in nfs/acl server (CVE-2007-0772)

2007-02-20T06:35:51+00:00

Due to type confusion, when an nfsacl verison 2 'ACCESS' request
finishes and tries to clean up, it calls fh_put on entiredly the
wrong thing and this can cause an oops.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] skip data conversion in compat_sys_mount when data_page is NULL

2006-12-17T00:20:48+00:00

OpenVZ Linux kernel team has found a problem with mounting in compat mode.

Simple command "mount -t smbfs ..." on Fedora Core 5 distro in 32-bit mode
leads to oops:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
[] compat_sys_mount+0xd6/0x290
PGD 34d48067 PUD 34d03067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
CPU: 0
Modules linked in: iptable_nat simfs smbfs ip_nat ip_conntrack vzdquota
parport_pc lp parport 8021q bridge llc vznetdev vzmon nfs lockd sunrpc vzdev
iptable_filter af_packet xt_length ipt_ttl xt_tcpmss ipt_TCPMSS
iptable_mangle xt_limit ipt_tos ipt_REJECT ip_tables x_tables thermal
processor fan button battery asus_acpi ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore i2c_i801
i2c_core e100 mii floppy ide_cd cdrom
Pid: 14656, comm: mount
RIP: 0060:[]  []
compat_sys_mount+0xd6/0x290
RSP: 0000:ffff810034d31f38  EFLAGS: 00010292
RAX: 000000000000002c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff810034c86bc0 RSI: 0000000000000096 RDI: ffffffff8061fc90
RBP: ffff810034d31f78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000d
R10: ffff810034d31e58 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff810039dc3000
R13: 000000000805ea48 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000c0ed0000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80749000(0033) knlGS:00000000b7d556b0
CS:  0060 DS: 007b ES: 007b CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000034d43000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process mount (pid: 14656, veid=300, threadinfo ffff810034d30000, task
ffff810034c86bc0)
Stack:  0000000000000000 ffff810034dd0000 ffff810034e4a000 000000000805ea48
 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 000000000805ea48 ffffffff8021e64e 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa

Code: 83 3b 06 0f 85 41 01 00 00 0f b7 43 0c 89 43 14 0f b7 43 0a
RIP  [] compat_sys_mount+0xd6/0x290
 RSP 
CR2: 0000000000000000

The problem is that data_page pointer can be NULL, so we should skip data
conversion in this case.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] fuse: fix Oops in lookup

2006-12-02T00:12:37+00:00

Fix bug in certain error paths of lookup routines.  The request object was
reused for sending FORGET, which is illegal.  This bug could cause an Oops
in 2.6.18.  In earlier versions it might silently corrupt memory, but this
is very unlikely.

These error paths are never triggered by libfuse, so this wasn't noticed
even with the 2.6.18 kernel, only with a filesystem using the raw kernel
interface.

Thanks to Russ Cox for the bug report and test filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
[chrisw: backport to 2.6.18 -stable]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] CIFS: New POSIX locking code not setting rc properly to zero on successful

2006-11-19T03:28:05+00:00

unlock in case where server does not support POSIX locks and nobrl is
not specified.

Signed-off-by: Steve French 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] CIFS: report rename failure when target file is locked by Windows

2006-11-19T03:28:05+00:00

Fixes Samba bugzilla bug # 4182

Rename by handle failures (retry after rename by path) were not
being returned back.

Signed-off-by: Steve French 
[chrisw: trivial backport in CHANGES]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] NFS: nfs_lookup - don't hash dentry when optimising away the lookup

2006-11-04T01:33:49+00:00

If the open intents tell us that a given lookup is going to result in a,
exclusive create, we currently optimize away the lookup call itself. The
reason is that the lookup would not be atomic with the create RPC call, so
why do it in the first place?

A problem occurs, however, if the VFS aborts the exclusive create operation
after the lookup, but before the call to create the file/directory: in this
case we will end up with a hashed negative dentry in the dcache that has
never been looked up.
Fix this by only actually hashing the dentry once the create operation has
been successfully completed.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] fuse: fix hang on SMP

2006-11-04T01:33:47+00:00

Fuse didn't always call i_size_write() with i_mutex held which caused
rare hangs on SMP/32bit.  This bug has been present since fuse-2.2,
well before being merged into mainline.

The simplest solution is to protect i_size_write() with the
per-connection spinlock.  Using i_mutex for this purpose would require
some restructuring of the code and I'm not even sure it's always safe
to acquire i_mutex in all places i_size needs to be set.

Since most of vmtruncate is already duplicated for other reasons,
duplicate the remaining part as well, making all i_size_write() calls
internal to fuse.

Using i_size_write() was unnecessary in fuse_init_inode(), since this
function is only called on a newly created locked inode.

Reported by a few people over the years, but special thanks to Dana
Henriksen who was persistent enough in helping me debug it.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright