[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3b73bcf30f8cf56f6635bb5a8fcfbc9e650f8d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:30:43 -0500
Subject: vfs: read file_handle only once in handle_to_path

commit 161f873b89136eb1e69477c847d5a5033239d9ba upstream.

We used to read file_handle twice.  Once to get the amount of extra
bytes, and once to fetch the entire structure.

This may be problematic since we do size verifications only after the
first read, so if the number of extra bytes changes in userspace between
the first and second calls, we'll have an incoherent view of
file_handle.

Instead, read the constant size once, and copy that over to the final
structure without having to re-read it again.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin at oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/fhandle.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fhandle.c b/fs/fhandle.c
index 999ff5c3cab0..d59712dfa3e7 100644
--- a/fs/fhandle.c
+++ b/fs/fhandle.c
@@ -195,8 +195,9 @@ static int handle_to_path(int mountdirfd, struct file_handle __user *ufh,
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 	/* copy the full handle */
-	if (copy_from_user(handle, ufh,
-			   sizeof(struct file_handle) +
+	*handle = f_handle;
+	if (copy_from_user(&handle->f_handle,
+			   &ufh->f_handle,
 			   f_handle.handle_bytes)) {
 		retval = -EFAULT;
 		goto out_handle;