linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] namei: aggressively check for nd->root escape on ".." resolution

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Date:   Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:53:26 +1100
From:   Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, jlayton@...nel.org,
        Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, christian@...uner.io,
        Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>,
        David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>, dev@...ncontainers.org,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] namei: aggressively check for nd->root escape on
 ".." resolution

On 2018-10-13, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > +static inline int nd_alloc_dpathbuf(struct nameidata *nd)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       if (unlikely(!nd->dpathbuf)) {
> > > > +               if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
> > > > +                       nd->dpathbuf = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > > > +                       if (unlikely(!nd->dpathbuf))
> > > > +                               return -ECHILD;
> > > > +               } else {
> > > > +                       nd->dpathbuf = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > +                       if (unlikely(!nd->dpathbuf))
> > > > +                               return -ENOMEM;
> > > > +               }
> > > > +       }
> > > > +       return 0;
> > > > +}
> > > 
> > > Note that a fixed-size path buffer means that if the path is very
> > > long, e.g. because you followed long symlinks on the way down, this
> > > can cause lookup failures.
> > 
> > This is already an issue with __d_path (even if the buffer was larger)
> > because it will not output a path longer than PATH_MAX. I imagine this
> > is a pretty strong argument for why we should refactor __d_path so that
> > we can *just* use the escape checking to avoid -ENAMETOOLONG.
> 
> Let me get it straight - the whole point of that buffer is to check
> if __d_path() returns NULL?  So you allocate it so that you would have
> place to copy the path components into... only to have them completely
> ignored?

Yes (and it was definitely the wrong thing to do).

Since writing that mail, I changed it to not have to allocate a buffer
-- though this is done in the fairly ugly way of changing prepend_path()
to be able to take @buffer==NULL which then skips all of the
string-related code, and then having a dumb wrapper which calls
prepend_path(root, path, NULL, NULL).

I was planning on sending out the updated patches after LPC.

> How is that different from path_is_under()?

I didn't know about path_is_under() -- I just checked and it appears to
not take &rename_lock? From my understanding, in order to protect
against the rename attack you need to take &rename_lock (or check
against &rename_lock at least and retry if it changed).

I could definitely use path_is_under() if you prefer, though I think
that in this case we'd need to take &rename_lock (right?). Also is there
a speed issue with taking the write-side of a seqlock when we are just
reading -- is this more efficient than doing a retry like in __d_path?

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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