Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak

[Mark Salyzyn]

On 12/11/2016 04:34 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Commit 073931017b49d9458aa351605b43a7e34598caef has several occurrences of
> > an acl leak.
> >
> > posix_acl_update_mode(inose, &mode, &acl);
> >
> > . . .
> >
> > posix_acl_release(acl);
> >
> >
> > acl is NULLed in posix_acl_update_mode to signal caller to not update the
> > acl; but because it is nulled, it is never released.
> I think you blame the wrong commit, this leak exists before that commit.
> Looks like we should just release it before NULL'ing.
>
> diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
> index 5955220..edd862a 100644
> --- a/fs/posix_acl.c
> +++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
> @@ -648,8 +648,10 @@ int posix_acl_update_mode(struct inode *inode,
> umode_t *mode_p,
>          error = posix_acl_equiv_mode(*acl, &mode);
>          if (error < 0)
>                  return error;
> -       if (error == 0)
> +       if (error == 0) {
> +               posix_acl_release(*acl);
>                  *acl = NULL;
> +       }
>          if (!in_group_p(inode->i_gid) &&
>              !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_FSETID))
>                  mode &= ~S_ISGID;

The leaks were introduced in 9p, gfs2, jfs and xfs drivers only.


-- Mark