Re: [RESEND PATCH] vfs: add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 09:02:31PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:43 PM Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 08:31:36PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 6:36 PM Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > So just checking IS_APPEND in the code paths used by
> > > > pwritev2 (and erroring out rather than silently writing output at the
> > > > wrong place) should suffice to preserve all existing security
> > > > invariants.
> > >
> > > Makes sense.
> >
> > There are 3 places where kiocb_set_rw_flags is called with flags that
> > seem to be controlled by userspace: aio.c, io_uring.c, and
> > read_write.c. Presumably each needs to EPERM out on RWF_NOAPPEND if
> > the underlying inode is S_APPEND. To avoid repeating the same logic in
> > an error-prone way, should kiocb_set_rw_flags's signature be updated
> > to take the filp so that it can obtain the inode and check IS_APPEND
> > before accepting RWF_NOAPPEND? It's inline so this should avoid
> > actually loading anything except in the codepath where
> > flags&RWF_NOAPPEND is nonzero.
> 
> You can get the file pointer from ki->ki_filp. See the RWF_NOWAIT
> branch of kiocb_set_rw_flags().

Thanks. I should have looked for that. OK, so a fixup like this on top
of the existing patch?

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 473289bff4c6..674131e8d139 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3457,8 +3457,11 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, rwf_t flags)
 		ki->ki_flags |= (IOCB_DSYNC | IOCB_SYNC);
 	if (flags & RWF_APPEND)
 		ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_APPEND;
-	if (flags & RWF_NOAPPEND)
+	if (flags & RWF_NOAPPEND) {
+		if (IS_APPEND(file_inode(ki->ki_filp)))
+			return -EPERM;
 		ki->ki_flags &= ~IOCB_APPEND;
+	}
 	return 0;
 }
 
If this is good I'll submit a v2 as the above squashed with the
original patch.

Rich