[PATCH 01/75] xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 30 15:16:30 UTC 2013


3.8.13.6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>

commit 604c499cbbcc3d5fe5fb8d53306aa0fae1990109 upstream.

We need to make sure that the device is not RO or that
the request is not past the number of sectors we want to
issue the DISCARD operation for.

This fixes CVE-2013-2140.

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell at citrix.com>
[v1: Made it pr_warn instead of pr_debug]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index ef6d9be..bdee5f8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -656,7 +656,18 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	int status = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
 	struct block_device *bdev = blkif->vbd.bdev;
 	unsigned long secure;
+	struct phys_req preq;
+
+	preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number;
+	preq.nr_sects      = req->u.discard.nr_sectors;
 
+	err = xen_vbd_translate(&preq, blkif, WRITE);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_warn(DRV_PFX "access denied: DISCARD [%llu->%llu] on dev=%04x\n",
+			preq.sector_number,
+			preq.sector_number + preq.nr_sects, blkif->vbd.pdevice);
+		goto fail_response;
+	}
 	blkif->st_ds_req++;
 
 	xen_blkif_get(blkif);
@@ -667,7 +678,7 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, req->u.discard.sector_number,
 				   req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
 				   GFP_KERNEL, secure);
-
+fail_response:
 	if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
 		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "discard op failed, not supported\n");
 		status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
-- 
1.8.1.2





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