[PATCH 3.18 21/29] userns: move user access out of the mutex

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5820f140edef111a9ea2ef414ab2428b8cb805b1 upstream.

The old code would hold the userns_state_mutex indefinitely if
memdup_user_nul stalled due to e.g. a userfault region. Prevent that by
moving the memdup_user_nul in front of the mutex_lock().

Note: This changes the error precedence of invalid buf/count/*ppos vs
map already written / capabilities missing.

Fixes: 22d917d80e84 ("userns: Rework the user_namespace adding uid/gid...")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 kernel/user_namespace.c |   22 ++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -602,7 +602,16 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
 	struct uid_gid_extent *extent = NULL;
 	unsigned long page = 0;
 	char *kbuf, *pos, *next_line;
-	ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+	ssize_t ret;
+
+	/* Only allow < page size writes at the beginning of the file */
+	if ((*ppos != 0) || (count >= PAGE_SIZE))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* Slurp in the user data */
+	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
+		return -EFAULT;
+	kbuf[count] = '\0';
 
 	/*
 	 * The userns_state_mutex serializes all writes to any given map.
@@ -643,17 +652,6 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
 	if (!page)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Only allow < page size writes at the beginning of the file */
-	ret = -EINVAL;
-	if ((*ppos != 0) || (count >= PAGE_SIZE))
-		goto out;
-
-	/* Slurp in the user data */
-	ret = -EFAULT;
-	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count))
-		goto out;
-	kbuf[count] = '\0';
-
 	/* Parse the user data */
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	pos = kbuf;