Re: [RFC] problems with alloc_file_pseudo() use in __nfs42_ssc_open()

[Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 1:52 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 08:19:54AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>
> > NFS spec does not guarantee the safety of the server.
> > It's like saying that the Law makes Crime impossible.
> > The law needs to be enforced, so if server gets a request
> > to COPY from/to an fhandle that resolves as a non-regular file
> > (from a rogue or buggy NFS client) the server should return an
> > error and not continue to alloc_file_pseudo().
>
> FWIW, my preference would be to have alloc_file_pseudo() reject
> directory inodes if it ever gets such.
>
> I'm still not sure that my (and yours, apparently) interpretation
> of what Olga said is correct, though.

Would it be appropriate to do the following then:

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c
index e88f6b18445e..112134b6438d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4file.c
@@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ static struct file *__nfs42_ssc_open(struct
vfsmount *ss_mnt,
                goto out;
        }

+       if (S_ISDIR(fattr->mode)) {
+               res = ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        res = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
        len = strlen(SSC_READ_NAME_BODY) + 16;
        read_name = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -357,6 +362,7 @@ static struct file *__nfs42_ssc_open(struct
vfsmount *ss_mnt,
                                     r_ino->i_fop);
        if (IS_ERR(filep)) {
                res = ERR_CAST(filep);
+               iput(r_ino);
                goto out_free_name;
        }