Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ovl: setxattr: don't deadlock when called from ima_fix_xattr.

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Mon May 30 2016 - 22:16:44 EST


On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 17:50 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Only tangentially related, but... that bug had been discussed,
> without any results: the fallback in ima_d_path() to ->d_name.name is
> completely broken. There is no warranty whatsoever that dentry won't be
> renamed, with its earlier (too long to be embedded into dentry itself)
> ->d_name.name getting freed. Right under your code.

Isn't i_mutex required?

>
> Could we please get rid of that thing? "A message in a near-oom
> situation might be less informative than we'd like" is better than
> "this code might end up dereferencing freed memory".
>
> Another similar bug is in ima_collect_measurement() -
> const char *filename = file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
> ...
> integrity_audit_msg(AUDIT_INTEGRITY_DATA, inode,
> filename, "collect_data", audit_cause,
> with no warranty whatsoever that you are not passing a pointer to freed
> memory. The same goes for ima_eventname_init_common() -
> if (event_data->file) {
> cur_filename = event_data->file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
> cur_filename_len = strlen(cur_filename);
> } else
> ...
> return ima_write_template_field_data(cur_filename, cur_filename_len,
> DATA_FMT_STRING, field_data);
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