Commit 7230a82e authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Ben Hutchings

fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities

commit 030b533c upstream.

Currently, notify_change() clears capabilities or IMA attributes by
calling security_inode_killpriv() before calling into ->setattr. Thus it
happens before any other permission checks in inode_change_ok() and user
is thus allowed to trigger clearing of capabilities or IMA attributes
for any file he can look up e.g. by calling chown for that file. This is
unexpected and can lead to user DoSing a system.

Fix the problem by calling security_inode_killpriv() at the end of
inode_change_ok() instead of from notify_change(). At that moment we are
sure user has permissions to do the requested change.

References: CVE-2015-1350
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 44b25c3e
......@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int setattr_prepare(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
/* If force is set do it anyway. */
if (ia_valid & ATTR_FORCE)
return 0;
goto kill_priv;
/* Make sure a caller can chown. */
if ((ia_valid & ATTR_UID) &&
......@@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ int setattr_prepare(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
return -EPERM;
}
kill_priv:
/* User has permission for the change */
if (ia_valid & ATTR_KILL_PRIV) {
int error;
error = security_inode_killpriv(dentry);
if (error)
return error;
}
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(setattr_prepare);
......@@ -199,13 +209,11 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
if (!(ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME_SET))
attr->ia_mtime = now;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_KILL_PRIV) {
attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_KILL_PRIV;
ia_valid &= ~ATTR_KILL_PRIV;
error = security_inode_need_killpriv(dentry);
if (error > 0)
error = security_inode_killpriv(dentry);
if (error)
if (error < 0)
return error;
if (error == 0)
ia_valid = attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_KILL_PRIV;
}
/*
......
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