This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: don't accept bare namespace as a valid xattr to the 4.0-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: btrfs-don-t-accept-bare-namespace-as-a-valid-xattr.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3c3b04d10ff1811a27f86684ccd2f5ba6983211d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:26:41 +0100 Subject: btrfs: don't accept bare namespace as a valid xattr From: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> commit 3c3b04d10ff1811a27f86684ccd2f5ba6983211d upstream. Due to insufficient check in btrfs_is_valid_xattr, this unexpectedly works: $ touch file $ setfattr -n user. -v 1 file $ getfattr -d file user.="1" ie. the missing attribute name after the namespace. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94291 Reported-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/xattr.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/xattr.c @@ -364,22 +364,42 @@ const struct xattr_handler *btrfs_xattr_ /* * Check if the attribute is in a supported namespace. * - * This applied after the check for the synthetic attributes in the system + * This is applied after the check for the synthetic attributes in the system * namespace. */ -static bool btrfs_is_valid_xattr(const char *name) +static int btrfs_is_valid_xattr(const char *name) { - return !strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, - XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN) || - !strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN) || - !strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN) || - !strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN) || - !strncmp(name, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX_LEN); + int len = strlen(name); + int prefixlen = 0; + + if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) + prefixlen = XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN; + else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN)) + prefixlen = XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN; + else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) + prefixlen = XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN; + else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) + prefixlen = XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN; + else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX_LEN)) + prefixlen = XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX_LEN; + else + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + + /* + * The name cannot consist of just prefix + */ + if (len <= prefixlen) + return -EINVAL; + + return 0; } ssize_t btrfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size) { + int ret; + /* * If this is a request for a synthetic attribute in the system.* * namespace use the generic infrastructure to resolve a handler @@ -388,8 +408,9 @@ ssize_t btrfs_getxattr(struct dentry *de if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN)) return generic_getxattr(dentry, name, buffer, size); - if (!btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name)) - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + ret = btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name); + if (ret) + return ret; return __btrfs_getxattr(dentry->d_inode, name, buffer, size); } @@ -397,6 +418,7 @@ int btrfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry size_t size, int flags) { struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->root; + int ret; /* * The permission on security.* and system.* is not checked @@ -413,8 +435,9 @@ int btrfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN)) return generic_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags); - if (!btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name)) - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + ret = btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name); + if (ret) + return ret; if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX_LEN)) return btrfs_set_prop(dentry->d_inode, name, @@ -430,6 +453,7 @@ int btrfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry int btrfs_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name) { struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->root; + int ret; /* * The permission on security.* and system.* is not checked @@ -446,8 +470,9 @@ int btrfs_removexattr(struct dentry *den if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN)) return generic_removexattr(dentry, name); - if (!btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name)) - return -EOPNOTSUPP; + ret = btrfs_is_valid_xattr(name); + if (ret) + return ret; if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX, XATTR_BTRFS_PREFIX_LEN)) return btrfs_set_prop(dentry->d_inode, name, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dsterba@xxxxxxx are queue-4.0/btrfs-don-t-accept-bare-namespace-as-a-valid-xattr.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