On 07/05/2016 04:14 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 6/28/16 11:39 PM, Tyler Hicks wrote:
>> Cherry-picking mainline commit 2f36db71009304b3f0b95afacd8eba1f9f046b87
>> introduces a regression in eCryptfs when mainline commit
>> 6a480a7842545ec520a91730209ec0bae41694c1 (4.6+) is not present. The
>> regression causes all attempts at opening directory files to fail with
>> EMEDIUMTYPE when the lower filesystem's file_operations for directory
>> files do not implement mmap.
>>
>> This is a simple fix that allows the check for the lower file's mmap
>> implementation to be ignored if the lower file is a directory.
>
> I have a different fix that I believe is more correct for this. I would
> have posted it in response to the original fix if it were ever actually
> posted for public discussion.
Hi Jeff - I'm glad that you are sending your fix out for review (not
sure if you noticed but I asked you to do so in a reply to your comment
on the project zero blog post).
> Denying open is the wrong place to fix this. It's too heavy a hammer
> and, as we see here, a bit fragile.
I agree but I think that denying open() has little to do with this
regression in linux-stable. I'd prefer that we leave linux-stable as-is
(after applying my minimal regression fix patch) and take your fix trunk.
Tyler
>
> The right fix is to deny the mmap call instead.
>
> -Jeff
>
>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.4.y, 3.18.y
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.5-
>> ---
>> fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c b/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
>> index e818f5a..b9faeab 100644
>> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
>> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
>> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ int ecryptfs_privileged_open(struct file **lower_file,
>> goto out;
>> }
>> have_file:
>> - if ((*lower_file)->f_op->mmap == NULL) {
>> + if ((*lower_file)->f_op->mmap == NULL && !d_is_dir(lower_dentry)) {
>> fput(*lower_file);
>> *lower_file = NULL;
>> rc = -EMEDIUMTYPE;
>>
>
>
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