linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] fs: don't let getdents return bogus names

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:22:50 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] fs: don't let getdents return bogus names

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 1:01 AM Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:23:17PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > When you e.g. run `find` on a directory for which getdents returns
> > "filenames" that contain slashes, `find` passes those "filenames" back to
> > the kernel, which then interprets them as paths. That could conceivably
> > cause userspace to do something bad when accessing something like an
> > untrusted USB stick, but I'm not aware of any specific example.
> >
> > Instead of returning bogus filenames to userspace, return -EUCLEAN.
>
> Please don't use EUCLEAN directly to indicate filesystem corruption
> directly.  If we want to indicate that the filesystem is corrupted,
> please hoist the multiple XFS/ext4 definitions of:
>
> #define EFSCORRUPTED EUCLEAN
>
> up into include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h and then use EFSCORRUPTED

Alright, I've added a patch that moves EFSCORRUPTED into the uapi
header in front of my series and changed the following patches to use
EFSCORRUPTED instead of EUCLEAN; see the v4 version I just sent out.