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Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted filename in fname_encrypt

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Hi Ted,

On 2016/8/28 13:13, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 09:13:28AM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>> From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
>>
>> This patch fixes to add null character at the end of encrypted filename
>> in fname_encrypt, in order to avoid incorrectly traversing random data
>> located after target filename. The call stack is as below:
>>
>> - f2fs_add_link
>>  - __f2fs_add_link
>>   - fscrypt_setup_filename
>>    - fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer		allocate buffer for @fname
>>    - fname_encrypt			didn't set null character for @fname
>>   - f2fs_add_regular_entry		init qstr with @fname
>>    - init_inode_metadata
>>     - f2fs_init_security
>>      - security_inode_init_security
>>       - selinux_inode_init_security
>>        - selinux_determine_inode_label
>>         - security_transition_sid
>> 	 - security_compute_sid
>> 	  - filename_compute_type
>> 	   - hashtab_search
>> 	    - filenametr_hash		traverse @fname as one which has null character
> 
> The problem is not in fname_encrypt(), but rather that
> security_inode_init_security() should be given the _unencrypted_
> filename.
> 
> In ext4 security_inode_init_security() is called with the qstr from
> the dentry, not the encrypted qstr --- in fact we call
> security_inode_init_security before we call fname_encrypt.
> 
> SELinux needs the unencrypted filename in order to decide which
> SELinux rules / labels should apply.

You're right, I missed this mistake. So actually, this is a bug of f2fs.
Let me figure out the fixing patch.

Thanks for your review! :)

Thanks,

> 
> 					- Ted
> 

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[PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted filename in fname_encrypt Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> - 2016-08-28 03:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted filename in  fname_encrypt Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-28 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted filename in  fname_encrypt Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> - 2016-08-28 08:20 +0200
      Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted  filename in fname_encrypt Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> - 2016-08-29 17:00 +0200
        Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted  filename in fname_encrypt Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> - 2016-08-29 20:00 +0200
        Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted  filename in fname_encrypt Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-08-29 21:10 +0200
          Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] fscrypto: fix to null-terminate encrypted  filename in fname_encrypt Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> - 2016-08-30 18:20 +0200

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