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

[Jann Horn]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:00 PM Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Looks good to me.