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| author | Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org> | 2026-08-04 11:45:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org> | 2026-08-21 09:09:54 +0200 |
| commit | e2f62a9744ebad3bcb6347a648e615026e9efeff (patch) | |
| tree | dd5f6873b8a43d55c05766832e3524b49166d516 | |
| parent | 885435535bb1d07746916d4c8832f95767bf2d7e (diff) | |
xfs: fix capability check in xfs
An user reported a bug where he managed to evade group's quota
by changing a file's gid to a different group id the same user
belonged to, even though quotas were enforced on both gids and the
file's size was big enough to exceed the quota's hardlimit.
Commit eba0549bc7d1 replaced a capable() call by a
has_capability_noaudit() to prevent unnecessary selinux audit messages.
Turns out that both calls have slightly different semantics even though
their documentation seems similar. Where in a nutshell:
capable() - Tests the task's effective credentials
has_ns_capability_noaudit() - Tests the task's real credentials
This most of the time has no practical difference but in some cases like
changing attrs (specifically group id in this case) through a NFS client
this will allow the quota code to use XFS_QMOPT_FORCE_RES, effectively
bypassing quota accounting checks.
Using instead ns_capable_noaudit() should fix this issue and prevent
selinux audit messages.
This also fix the remaining calls to has_capability_noaudit()
Fixes: eba0549bc7d1 ("xfs: don't generate selinux audit messages for capability testing")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.18
Reported-by: Dr. Thomas Orgis <thomas.orgis@uni-hamburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c index b6a3bc9f143c..7c79fbe0a74c 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsmap.c @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ xfs_getfsmap( return -EINVAL; use_rmap = xfs_has_rmapbt(mp) && - has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_SYS_ADMIN); + ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN); head->fmh_entries = 0; /* Set up our device handlers. */ diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c index 1b53701bebea..1a8af827dde1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr_get_trans( goto out_error; error = xfs_trans_alloc_ichange(ip, NULL, NULL, pdqp, - has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_FOWNER), &tp); + ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_FOWNER), &tp); if (error) goto out_error; diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c index 4a3299abf774..36a22d4a8cc4 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ xfs_setattr_nonsize( } error = xfs_trans_alloc_ichange(ip, udqp, gdqp, NULL, - has_capability_noaudit(current, CAP_FOWNER), &tp); + ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_FOWNER), &tp); if (error) goto out_dqrele; |