[PATCH 2.6.32 39/38] vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root

[Willy Tarreau]

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 397d425dc26da728396e66d392d5dcb8dac30c37 upstream.

In rare cases a directory can be renamed out from under a bind mount.
In those cases without special handling it becomes possible to walk up
the directory tree to the root dentry of the filesystem and down
from the root dentry to every other file or directory on the filesystem.

Like division by zero .. from an unconnected path can not be given
a useful semantic as there is no predicting at which path component
the code will realize it is unconnected.  We certainly can not match
the current behavior as the current behavior is a security hole.

Therefore when encounting .. when following an unconnected path
return -ENOENT.

- Add a function path_connected to verify path->dentry is reachable
  from path->mnt.mnt_root.  AKA to validate that rename did not do
  something nasty to the bind mount.

  To avoid races path_connected must be called after following a path
  component to it's next path component.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 0d766d2..6551acb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -434,6 +434,24 @@ static struct dentry * cached_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name,
 	return dentry;
 }
 
+/**
+ * path_connected - Verify that a path->dentry is below path->mnt.mnt_root
+ * @path: nameidate to verify
+ *
+ * Rename can sometimes move a file or directory outside of a bind
+ * mount, path_connected allows those cases to be detected.
+ */
+static bool path_connected(const struct path *path)
+{
+	struct vfsmount *mnt = path->mnt;
+
+	/* Only bind mounts can have disconnected paths */
+	if (mnt->mnt_root == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root)
+		return true;
+
+	return is_subdir(path->dentry, mnt->mnt_root);
+}
+
 /*
  * Short-cut version of permission(), for calling by
  * path_walk(), when dcache lock is held.  Combines parts
@@ -754,7 +772,7 @@ int follow_down(struct path *path)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static __always_inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
+static __always_inline int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	set_root(nd);
 
@@ -771,6 +789,8 @@ static __always_inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
 			nd->path.dentry = dget(nd->path.dentry->d_parent);
 			spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 			dput(old);
+			if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path)))
+				return -ENOENT;
 			break;
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
@@ -788,6 +808,7 @@ static __always_inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
 		nd->path.mnt = parent;
 	}
 	follow_mount(&nd->path);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -905,7 +926,9 @@ static int __link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
 			case 2:	
 				if (this.name[1] != '.')
 					break;
-				follow_dotdot(nd);
+				err = follow_dotdot(nd);
+				if (err < 0)
+					goto out_nd_path_put;
 				inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
 				/* fallthrough */
 			case 1:
@@ -960,7 +983,9 @@ last_component:
 			case 2:	
 				if (this.name[1] != '.')
 					break;
-				follow_dotdot(nd);
+				err = follow_dotdot(nd);
+				if (err < 0)
+					goto out_nd_path_put;
 				inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
 				/* fallthrough */
 			case 1:
@@ -1022,6 +1047,7 @@ out_dput:
 		path_put_conditional(&next, nd);
 		break;
 	}
+out_nd_path_put:
 	path_put(&nd->path);
 return_err:
 	return err;
-- 
1.7.12.2.21.g234cd45.dirty





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