linux-kernel - [ 138/187] eCryptfs: Properly check for O_RDONLY flag before doing privileged open

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20120712191535.183178157@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:34:54 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [ 138/187] eCryptfs: Properly check for O_RDONLY flag before doing privileged open

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>

commit 9fe79d7600497ed8a95c3981cbe5b73ab98222f0 upstream.

If the first attempt at opening the lower file read/write fails,
eCryptfs will retry using a privileged kthread. However, the privileged
retry should not happen if the lower file's inode is read-only because a
read/write open will still be unsuccessful.

The check for determining if the open should be retried was intended to
be based on the access mode of the lower file's open flags being
O_RDONLY, but the check was incorrectly performed. This would cause the
open to be retried by the privileged kthread, resulting in a second
failed open of the lower file. This patch corrects the check to
determine if the open request should be handled by the privileged
kthread.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/kthread.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int ecryptfs_privileged_open(struct file
 	(*lower_file) = dentry_open(lower_dentry, lower_mnt, flags, cred);
 	if (!IS_ERR(*lower_file))
 		goto out;
-	if (flags & O_RDONLY) {
+	if ((flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY) {
 		rc = PTR_ERR((*lower_file));
 		goto out;
 	}

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/