This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vfs-test-for-and-handle-paths-that-are-unreachable-from-their-mnt_root.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 397d425dc26da728396e66d392d5dcb8dac30c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:27:13 -0500 Subject: vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 397d425dc26da728396e66d392d5dcb8dac30c37 upstream. In rare cases a directory can be renamed out from under a bind mount. In those cases without special handling it becomes possible to walk up the directory tree to the root dentry of the filesystem and down from the root dentry to every other file or directory on the filesystem. Like division by zero .. from an unconnected path can not be given a useful semantic as there is no predicting at which path component the code will realize it is unconnected. We certainly can not match the current behavior as the current behavior is a security hole. Therefore when encounting .. when following an unconnected path return -ENOENT. - Add a function path_connected to verify path->dentry is reachable from path->mnt.mnt_root. AKA to validate that rename did not do something nasty to the bind mount. To avoid races path_connected must be called after following a path component to it's next path component. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -473,6 +473,24 @@ void path_put(const struct path *path) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_put); +/** + * path_connected - Verify that a path->dentry is below path->mnt.mnt_root + * @path: nameidate to verify + * + * Rename can sometimes move a file or directory outside of a bind + * mount, path_connected allows those cases to be detected. + */ +static bool path_connected(const struct path *path) +{ + struct vfsmount *mnt = path->mnt; + + /* Only bind mounts can have disconnected paths */ + if (mnt->mnt_root == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root) + return true; + + return is_subdir(path->dentry, mnt->mnt_root); +} + /* * Path walking has 2 modes, rcu-walk and ref-walk (see * Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt). In situations when we can't @@ -1148,6 +1166,8 @@ static int follow_dotdot_rcu(struct name goto failed; nd->path.dentry = parent; nd->seq = seq; + if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path))) + goto failed; break; } if (!follow_up_rcu(&nd->path)) @@ -1231,7 +1251,7 @@ static void follow_mount(struct path *pa } } -static void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd) +static int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd) { set_root(nd); @@ -1246,6 +1266,10 @@ static void follow_dotdot(struct nameida /* rare case of legitimate dget_parent()... */ nd->path.dentry = dget_parent(nd->path.dentry); dput(old); + if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path))) { + path_put(&nd->path); + return -ENOENT; + } break; } if (!follow_up(&nd->path)) @@ -1253,6 +1277,7 @@ static void follow_dotdot(struct nameida } follow_mount(&nd->path); nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; + return 0; } /* @@ -1476,7 +1501,7 @@ static inline int handle_dots(struct nam if (follow_dotdot_rcu(nd)) return -ECHILD; } else - follow_dotdot(nd); + return follow_dotdot(nd); } return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/dcache-handle-escaped-paths-in-prepend_path.patch queue-3.10/vfs-test-for-and-handle-paths-that-are-unreachable-from-their-mnt_root.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html