On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 09:40:07AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Filesystem uids which don't map into a user namespace may result
> in inode->i_uid being INVALID_UID. A symlink and its parent
> could have different owners in the filesystem can both get
> mapped to INVALID_UID, which may result in following a symlink
> when this would not have otherwise been permitted when protected
> symlinks are enabled.
>
> Add a new helper function, uid_valid_eq(), and use this to
> validate that the ids in may_follow_link() are both equal and
> valid. Also add an equivalent helper for gids, which is
> currently unused.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/namei.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/uidgid.h | 10 ++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 288e8a74bf88..4ccafd391697 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ static inline int may_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd)
> return 0;
>
> /* Allowed if parent directory and link owner match. */
> - if (uid_eq(parent->i_uid, inode->i_uid))
> + if (uid_valid_eq(parent->i_uid, inode->i_uid))
> return 0;
>
> if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> diff --git a/include/linux/uidgid.h b/include/linux/uidgid.h
> index 03835522dfcb..e09529fe2668 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uidgid.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uidgid.h
> @@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ static inline bool gid_valid(kgid_t gid)
> return __kgid_val(gid) != (gid_t) -1;
> }
>
> +static inline bool uid_valid_eq(kuid_t left, kuid_t right)
> +{
> + return uid_eq(left, right) && uid_valid(left);
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool gid_valid_eq(kgid_t left, kgid_t right)
> +{
> + return gid_eq(left, right) && gid_valid(left);
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
>
> extern kuid_t make_kuid(struct user_namespace *from, uid_t uid);
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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