[PATCH] nfsd4: readdirplus shouldn't return parent of export

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Mar 12 18:23:09 UTC 2021


From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields at redhat.com>

CVE-2021-3178

If you export a subdirectory of a filesystem, a READDIRPLUS on the root
of that export will return the filehandle of the parent with the ".."
entry.

The filehandle is optional, so let's just not return the filehandle for
".." if we're at the root of an export.

Note that once the client learns one filehandle outside of the export,
they can trivially access the rest of the export using further lookups.

However, it is also not very difficult to guess filehandles outside of
the export.  So exporting a subdirectory of a filesystem should
considered equivalent to providing access to the entire filesystem.  To
avoid confusion, we recommend only exporting entire filesystems.

Reported-by: Youjipeng <wangzhibei1999 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
(cherry picked from commit 51b2ee7d006a736a9126e8111d1f24e4fd0afaa6)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
index aae514d40b64..1a9e177be158 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -849,9 +849,14 @@ compose_entry_fh(struct nfsd3_readdirres *cd, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	if (isdotent(name, namlen)) {
 		if (namlen == 2) {
 			dchild = dget_parent(dparent);
-			/* filesystem root - cannot return filehandle for ".." */
+			/*
+			 * Don't return filehandle for ".." if we're at
+			 * the filesystem or export root:
+			 */
 			if (dchild == dparent)
 				goto out;
+			if (dparent == exp->ex_path.dentry)
+				goto out;
 		} else
 			dchild = dget(dparent);
 	} else
-- 
2.17.1




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