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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/2] fs,proc: Respect FMODE_WRITE when opening /proc/pid/fd/N
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:22:48AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>>> +static int proc_may_follow(struct nameidata *nd, struct file *f)
>>>> +{
>>>> + if (!nd)
>>>> + return 0; /* This is readlink, */
>>>> +
>>>> + if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_WRITE) && !(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
>>>> + return -EACCES;
>>>> +
>>>> + return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> And this is just plain wrong. WTF are you making the traversal of symlink
>>> in the middle of pathname dependent on the open flags?
>>
>> Can you give me a hint? There are three cases that I need to
>> distinguish, I think:
>>
>> 1. readlink. Currently handled by nd == NULL. It's ugly, and I'll clean it up.
>>
>> 2. Traversal in the middle of a path. This can be either literally in
>> the middle (e.g. "/proc/self/fd/3/something_else") or in a symlink
>> that's the last component of the literal path (e.g. "fd3null" where
>> "fd3null" is a symlink to "/proc/self/fd/3/null" and "null" is either
>> a file or a symlink to /dev/null). I have the latter type wrong in
>> this patch.
>>
>> 3. Actually opening /proc/self/fd/N. This can be direct or by opening
>> a symlink to /proc/self/fd/N. I think I have this case correct.
>>
>> What's the best way to fix this? Should I be checking nd->depth?
>
> No, I think that's wrong, too. I think that will cause me to screw up
> symlinks to /proc/self/fd/3. What's the right way to tell that
> follow_link is happening on the very last pathname component?
>
> Hmm. I wonder what happens, or even what should happen, if the file
> descriptor is a symlink opened with O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW.

Here's a test case:

https://github.com/amluto/procfd_test

It doesn't cover O_PATH yet.

Both my code and current kernels fail.

--Andy


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