In passthrough security model, following symbolic links in the server side could result in TOCTTOU vulnerabilities.
This patchset resolves this issue by creating a dedicated process which chroots into the share path and all file object access is done in the chroot environment. This patchset implements chroot enviroment, provides necessary functions that can be used by the passthrough function calls. Changes from version V8: * Make chmod and chown also operate under chroot process * Check for invalid path requests, minor cleanups Changes from version V7: * Add two chroot methods remove and rename * Minor cleanups like consolidating functions Changes from version V6: * Send only fd/errno in socket operations instead of FdInfo structure * Minor cleanups Changes from version V5: * Return errno on failure instead of setting errno * Minor cleanups like updated comments, enable CONFIG_THREAD if CONFIG_VIRTFS is enabled Changes from version V4: * Avoid using malloc/free inside chroot process * Seperate chroot server and client functions Changes from version V3 * Return EIO incase of socket read/write fail instead of exiting * Changed data types as suggested by Blue Swirl * Chroot process reports error through qemu process Changes from version V2 * Treat socket IO errors as fatal, ie qemu will exit * Split patchset based on chroot side (server) and qemu side(client) functionalities M. Mohan Kumar (13): Implement qemu_read_full virtio-9p: Enable CONFIG_THREAD if CONFIG_VIRTFS is enabled virtio-9p: Provide chroot worker side interfaces virtio-9p: Add qemu side interfaces for chroot environment virtio-9p: Add support to open a file in chroot environment virtio-9p: Create support in chroot environment virtio-9p: Support for creating special files virtio-9p: Add support for removing file or directory virtio-9p: Add support to rename virtio-9p: Move file post creation changes to none security model virtio-9p: Add support for chmod virtio-9p: Add support for chown virtio-9p: Chroot environment for other functions Makefile.objs | 1 + configure | 1 + hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot-worker.c | 342 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot.c | 105 +++++++++++ hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot.h | 47 +++++ hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c | 332 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c | 24 +++ hw/file-op-9p.h | 3 + osdep.c | 32 ++++ qemu-common.h | 2 + 10 files changed, 811 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot-worker.c create mode 100644 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot.c create mode 100644 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-chroot.h -- 1.7.3.4