Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> >> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> The sysfs_mutex is required to ensure updates are and will remain
> >> atomic with respect to other inode iattr updates, that do not happen
> >> through the filesystem.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> fs/sysfs/inode.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >> 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> >> index e28cecf..8a08250 100644
> >> --- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> >> +++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
> >> @@ -122,23 +122,39 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * iattr)
> >> return error;
> >> }
> >>
> >> +static int sysfs_sd_setsecdata(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, void **secdata, u32 *secdata_len)
> >> +{
> >> + struct sysfs_inode_attrs *iattrs;
> >> + void *old_secdata;
> >> + size_t old_secdata_len;
> >> +
> >> + iattrs = sd->s_iattr;
> >> + if (!iattrs)
> >> + iattrs = sysfs_init_inode_attrs(sd);
> >> + if (!iattrs)
> >> + return -ENOMEM;
> >> +
> >> + old_secdata = iattrs->ia_secdata;
> >> + old_secdata_len = iattrs->ia_secdata_len;
> >> +
> >> + iattrs->ia_secdata = *secdata;
> >> + iattrs->ia_secdata_len = *secdata_len;
> >> +
> >> + *secdata = old_secdata;
> >> + *secdata_len = old_secdata_len;
> >> + return 0;
> >> +}
> >> +
> >> int sysfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
> >> size_t size, int flags)
> >> {
> >> struct sysfs_dirent *sd = dentry->d_fsdata;
> >> - struct sysfs_inode_attrs *iattrs;
> >> void *secdata;
> >> int error;
> >> u32 secdata_len = 0;
> >>
> >> if (!sd)
> >> return -EINVAL;
> >> - if (!sd->s_iattr)
> >> - sd->s_iattr = sysfs_init_inode_attrs(sd);
> >> - if (!sd->s_iattr)
> >> - return -ENOMEM;
> >> -
> >> - iattrs = sd->s_iattr;
> >>
> >> if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) {
> >> const char *suffix = name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN;
> >> @@ -150,12 +166,13 @@ int sysfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
> >> &secdata, &secdata_len);
> >> if (error)
> >> goto out;
> >> - if (iattrs->ia_secdata)
> >> - security_release_secctx(iattrs->ia_secdata,
> >> - iattrs->ia_secdata_len);
> >> - iattrs->ia_secdata = secdata;
> >> - iattrs->ia_secdata_len = secdata_len;
> >>
> >> + mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
> >> + error = sysfs_sd_setsecdata(sd, &secdata, &secdata_len);
> >
> > You're ignoring the potential -ENOMEM return value here?
> >
> > Worse, if -ENOMEM, then secdata was never set, so you call
> > security_release_secctx() on a random value left on the stack...
>
> No. It is more elegant than that.
> If sysfs_sd_setsecdata fails secdata holds the freshly allocated secdata value.
> If sysfs_sd_setsecdata succeeds secdata holds the old value of secdata.
Gah, sorry.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
(as an aside, I can't see any reason to not just return if strncmp(name,
XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,) above to avoid a level of indent and needless gotos)
thanks,
-serge
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