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Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak

From Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak
Date 2016-12-13 07:30 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> wrote:
>
> The leaks were introduced in 9p, gfs2, jfs and xfs drivers only.


Only the 9p case is obvious to me:

diff --git a/fs/9p/acl.c b/fs/9p/acl.c
index b3c2cc7..082d227 100644
--- a/fs/9p/acl.c
+++ b/fs/9p/acl.c
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct
xattr_handler *handler,
        case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
                if (acl) {
                        struct iattr iattr;
+                       struct posix_acl *old_acl = acl;

                        retval = posix_acl_update_mode(inode,
&iattr.ia_mode, &acl);
                        if (retval)
@@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct
xattr_handler *handler,
                                 * by the mode bits. So don't
                                 * update ACL.
                                 */
+                               posix_acl_release(old_acl);
                                value = NULL;
                                size = 0;
                        }


The rest are anti-pattern (modifying parameters on stack via address)
but look correct.

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Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 01:40 +0100
  Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-12-12 11:50 +0100
    Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 22:20 +0100
  Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> - 2016-12-13 01:30 +0100
    Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2016-12-13 07:30 +0100
      Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-12-13 12:30 +0100
        Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2016-12-14 01:00 +0100
      Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> - 2016-12-13 17:00 +0100
        Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-12-13 17:10 +0100
      Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> - 2016-12-14 00:50 +0100
        Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-14 01:10 +0100
          Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> - 2016-12-14 21:30 +0100
            Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-15 00:40 +0100
              Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> - 2016-12-15 16:30 +0100
                Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-12-15 17:40 +0100
    Re: CVE-2016-7097 causes acl leak Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-12-13 12:20 +0100

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