Newlines in virtiofs tags are awkward for users and potential vectors for string injection attacks. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c index 5f1be1da92ce..d84dacbdce2c 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c +++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c @@ -323,6 +323,16 @@ static int virtio_fs_read_tag(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs) return -ENOMEM; memcpy(fs->tag, tag_buf, len); fs->tag[len] = '\0'; + + /* While the VIRTIO specification allows any character, newlines are + * awkward on mount(8) command-lines and cause problems in the sysfs + * "tag" attr and uevent TAG= properties. Forbid them. + */ + if (strchr(fs->tag, '\n')) { + dev_dbg(&vdev->dev, "refusing virtiofs tag with newline character\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + return 0; } -- 2.43.0