On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 09:02:31PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:43 PM Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 08:31:36PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 6:36 PM Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org> wrote: > > > > So just checking IS_APPEND in the code paths used by > > > > pwritev2 (and erroring out rather than silently writing output at the > > > > wrong place) should suffice to preserve all existing security > > > > invariants. > > > > > > Makes sense. > > > > There are 3 places where kiocb_set_rw_flags is called with flags that > > seem to be controlled by userspace: aio.c, io_uring.c, and > > read_write.c. Presumably each needs to EPERM out on RWF_NOAPPEND if > > the underlying inode is S_APPEND. To avoid repeating the same logic in > > an error-prone way, should kiocb_set_rw_flags's signature be updated > > to take the filp so that it can obtain the inode and check IS_APPEND > > before accepting RWF_NOAPPEND? It's inline so this should avoid > > actually loading anything except in the codepath where > > flags&RWF_NOAPPEND is nonzero. > > You can get the file pointer from ki->ki_filp. See the RWF_NOWAIT > branch of kiocb_set_rw_flags().
Thanks. I should have looked for that. OK, so a fixup like this on top of the existing patch? diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 473289bff4c6..674131e8d139 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3457,8 +3457,11 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, rwf_t flags) ki->ki_flags |= (IOCB_DSYNC | IOCB_SYNC); if (flags & RWF_APPEND) ki->ki_flags |= IOCB_APPEND; - if (flags & RWF_NOAPPEND) + if (flags & RWF_NOAPPEND) { + if (IS_APPEND(file_inode(ki->ki_filp))) + return -EPERM; ki->ki_flags &= ~IOCB_APPEND; + } return 0; } If this is good I'll submit a v2 as the above squashed with the original patch. Rich