Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs: fix vulnerability in openat_dir() and local_unlinkat_common()

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 06:25:30PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> We should pass O_NOFOLLOW otherwise openat() will follow symlinks and make
> QEMU vulnerable.
> 
> O_PATH was used as an optimization: the fd returned by openat_dir() is only
> passed to openat() actually, so we don't really need to reach the underlying
> filesystem.
> 
> O_NOFOLLOW | O_PATH isn't an option: if name is a symlink, openat() will
> return a fd, forcing us to do some other syscall to detect we have a
> symlink. Also, O_PATH doesn't exist in glibc 2.13 and older.
> 
> The only sane thing to do is hence to drop O_PATH, and only pass O_NOFOLLOW.
> 
> While here, we also fix local_unlinkat_common() to use openat_dir() for
> the same reasons (it was a leftover in the original patchset actually).
> 
> This fixes CVE-2016-9602.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/9pfs/9p-local.c |    2 +-
>  hw/9pfs/9p-util.h  |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> index 5db7104334d6..e31309a29c58 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> @@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static int local_unlinkat_common(FsContext *ctx, int 
> dirfd, const char *name,
>          if (flags == AT_REMOVEDIR) {
>              int fd;
>  
> -            fd = openat(dirfd, name, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY | O_PATH);
> +            fd = openat_dir(dirfd, name);
>              if (fd == -1) {
>                  goto err_out;
>              }
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-util.h b/hw/9pfs/9p-util.h
> index 091f3ce88e15..4001d1fd8398 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-util.h
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-util.h
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static inline void close_preserve_errno(int fd)
>  
>  static inline int openat_dir(int dirfd, const char *name)
>  {
> -    return openat(dirfd, name, O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY | O_PATH);
> +    return openat(dirfd, name, O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY | O_NOFOLLOW);
>  }
>  
>  static inline int openat_file(int dirfd, const char *name, int flags,

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>

Regards,
Daniel
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