CVE-2014-9710 (published 2015-05-27T10:59Z)

The Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.19 does not ensure that the visible xattr state is consistent with a requested replacement, which allows local users to bypass intended ACL settings and gain privileges via standard filesystem operations (1) during an xattr-replacement time window, related to a race condition, or (2) after an xattr-replacement attempt that fails because the data does not fit.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-362
cwe_name: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
description: The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
extended_description: 
            This can have security implications when the expected synchronization is in security-critical code, such as recording whether a user is authenticated or modifying important state information that should not be influenced by an outsider.
            A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc.
            A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:
               
                  Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution.
                  Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource.
               
            A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. Programmers may assume that certain code sequences execute too quickly to be affected by an interfering code sequence; when they are not, this violates atomicity. For example, the single "x++" statement may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read (the original value of x), followed by a computation (x+1), followed by a write (save the result to x).
            The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Filipe Manana
author_date: 2014-11-09 08:38:39+00:00
msg: Btrfs: make xattr replace operations atomic

Replacing a xattr consists of doing a lookup for its existing value, delete
the current value from the respective leaf, release the search path and then
finally insert the new value. This leaves a time window where readers (getxattr,
listxattrs) won't see any value for the xattr. Xattrs are used to store ACLs,
so this has security implications.

This change also fixes 2 other existing issues which were:

*) Deleting the old xattr value without verifying first if the new xattr will
   fit in the existing leaf item (in case multiple xattrs are packed in the
   same item due to name hash collision);

*) Returning -EEXIST when the flag XATTR_CREATE is given and the xattr doesn't
   exist but we have have an existing item that packs muliple xattrs with
   the same name hash as the input xattr. In this case we should return ENOSPC.

A test case for xfstests follows soon.

Thanks to Alexandre Oliva for reporting the non-atomicity of the xattr replace
implementation.

Reported-by: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: ctree.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2939,7 +2939,7 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root
 	 */
 	if (!p->leave_spinning)
 		btrfs_set_path_blocking(p);
-	if (ret < 0)
+	if (ret < 0 && !p->skip_release_on_error)
 		btrfs_release_path(p);
 	return ret;
 }

programming_language: C
filename: ctree.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ struct btrfs_path {
 	unsigned int leave_spinning:1;
 	unsigned int search_commit_root:1;
 	unsigned int need_commit_sem:1;
+	unsigned int skip_release_on_error:1;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -3690,6 +3691,10 @@ struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_lookup_xattr(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 int verify_dir_item(struct btrfs_root *root,
 		    struct extent_buffer *leaf,
 		    struct btrfs_dir_item *dir_item);
+struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_match_dir_item_name(struct btrfs_root *root,
+						 struct btrfs_path *path,
+						 const char *name,
+						 int name_len);
 
 /* orphan.c */
 int btrfs_insert_orphan_item(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,

programming_language: C
filename: dir-item.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -21,10 +21,6 @@
 #include "hash.h"
 #include "transaction.h"
 
-static struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_match_dir_item_name(struct btrfs_root *root,
-			      struct btrfs_path *path,
-			      const char *name, int name_len);
-
 /*
  * insert a name into a directory, doing overflow properly if there is a hash
  * collision.  data_size indicates how big the item inserted should be.  On
@@ -383,9 +379,9 @@ struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_lookup_xattr(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
  * this walks through all the entries in a dir item and finds one
  * for a specific name.
  */
-static struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_match_dir_item_name(struct btrfs_root *root,
-			      struct btrfs_path *path,
-			      const char *name, int name_len)
+struct btrfs_dir_item *btrfs_match_dir_item_name(struct btrfs_root *root,
+						 struct btrfs_path *path,
+						 const char *name, int name_len)
 {
 	struct btrfs_dir_item *dir_item;
 	unsigned long name_ptr;

programming_language: C
filename: xattr.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "xattr.h"
 #include "disk-io.h"
 #include "props.h"
+#include "locking.h"
 
 
 ssize_t __btrfs_getxattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name,
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ static int do_setxattr(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		       struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 		       const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
 {
-	struct btrfs_dir_item *di;
+	struct btrfs_dir_item *di = NULL;
 	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
 	struct btrfs_path *path;
 	size_t name_len = strlen(name);
@@ -103,84 +104,119 @@ static int do_setxattr(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	path = btrfs_alloc_path();
 	if (!path)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	path->skip_release_on_error = 1;
+
+	if (!value) {
+		di = btrfs_lookup_xattr(trans, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
+					name, name_len, -1);
+		if (!di && (flags & XATTR_REPLACE))
+			ret = -ENODATA;
+		else if (di)
+			ret = btrfs_delete_one_dir_name(trans, root, path, di);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
+	/*
+	 * For a replace we can't just do the insert blindly.
+	 * Do a lookup first (read-only btrfs_search_slot), and return if xattr
+	 * doesn't exist. If it exists, fall down below to the insert/replace
+	 * path - we can't race with a concurrent xattr delete, because the VFS
+	 * locks the inode's i_mutex before calling setxattr or removexattr.
+	 */
 	if (flags & XATTR_REPLACE) {
-		di = btrfs_lookup_xattr(trans, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode), name,
-					name_len, -1);
-		if (IS_ERR(di)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(di);
-			goto out;
-		} else if (!di) {
+		ASSERT(mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex));
+		di = btrfs_lookup_xattr(NULL, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
+					name, name_len, 0);
+		if (!di) {
 			ret = -ENODATA;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		ret = btrfs_delete_one_dir_name(trans, root, path, di);
-		if (ret)
-			goto out;
 		btrfs_release_path(path);
+		di = NULL;
+	}
 
+	ret = btrfs_insert_xattr_item(trans, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
+				      name, name_len, value, size);
+	if (ret == -EOVERFLOW) {
 		/*
-		 * remove the attribute
+		 * We have an existing item in a leaf, split_leaf couldn't
+		 * expand it. That item might have or not a dir_item that
+		 * matches our target xattr, so lets check.
 		 */
-		if (!value)
-			goto out;
-	} else {
-		di = btrfs_lookup_xattr(NULL, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
-					name, name_len, 0);
-		if (IS_ERR(di)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(di);
+		ret = 0;
+		btrfs_assert_tree_locked(path->nodes[0]);
+		di = btrfs_match_dir_item_name(root, path, name, name_len);
+		if (!di && !(flags & XATTR_REPLACE)) {
+			ret = -ENOSPC;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (!di && !value)
-			goto out;
-		btrfs_release_path(path);
+	} else if (ret == -EEXIST) {
+		ret = 0;
+		di = btrfs_match_dir_item_name(root, path, name, name_len);
+		ASSERT(di); /* logic error */
+	} else if (ret) {
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-again:
-	ret = btrfs_insert_xattr_item(trans, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
-				      name, name_len, value, size);
-	/*
-	 * If we're setting an xattr to a new value but the new value is say
-	 * exactly BTRFS_MAX_XATTR_SIZE, we could end up with EOVERFLOW getting
-	 * back from split_leaf.  This is because it thinks we'll be extending
-	 * the existing item size, but we're asking for enough space to add the
-	 * item itself.  So if we get EOVERFLOW just set ret to EEXIST and let
-	 * the rest of the function figure it out.
-	 */
-	if (ret == -EOVERFLOW)
+	if (di && (flags & XATTR_CREATE)) {
 		ret = -EEXIST;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
-	if (ret == -EEXIST) {
-		if (flags & XATTR_CREATE)
-			goto out;
+	if (di) {
 		/*
-		 * We can't use the path we already have since we won't have the
-		 * proper locking for a delete, so release the path and
-		 * re-lookup to delete the thing.
+		 * We're doing a replace, and it must be atomic, that is, at
+		 * any point in time we have either the old or the new xattr
+		 * value in the tree. We don't want readers (getxattr and
+		 * listxattrs) to miss a value, this is specially important
+		 * for ACLs.
 		 */
-		btrfs_release_path(path);
-		di = btrfs_lookup_xattr(trans, root, path, btrfs_ino(inode),
-					name, name_len, -1);
-		if (IS_ERR(di)) {
-			ret = PTR_ERR(di);
-			goto out;
-		} else if (!di) {
-			/* Shouldn't happen but just in case... */
-			btrfs_release_path(path);
-			goto again;
+		const int slot = path->slots[0];
+		struct extent_buffer *leaf = path->nodes[0];
+		const u16 old_data_len = btrfs_dir_data_len(leaf, di);
+		const u32 item_size = btrfs_item_size_nr(leaf, slot);
+		const u32 data_size = sizeof(*di) + name_len + size;
+		struct btrfs_item *item;
+		unsigned long data_ptr;
+		char *ptr;
+
+		if (size > old_data_len) {
+			if (btrfs_leaf_free_space(root, leaf) <
+			    (size - old_data_len)) {
+				ret = -ENOSPC;
+				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 
-		ret = btrfs_delete_one_dir_name(trans, root, path, di);
-		if (ret)
-			goto out;
+		if (old_data_len + name_len + sizeof(*di) == item_size) {
+			/* No other xattrs packed in the same leaf item. */
+			if (size > old_data_len)
+				btrfs_extend_item(root, path,
+						  size - old_data_len);
+			else if (size < old_data_len)
+				btrfs_truncate_item(root, path, data_size, 1);
+		} else {
+			/* There are other xattrs packed in the same item. */
+			ret = btrfs_delete_one_dir_name(trans, root, path, di);
+			if (ret)
+				goto out;
+			btrfs_extend_item(root, path, data_size);
+		}
 
+		item = btrfs_item_nr(slot);
+		ptr = btrfs_item_ptr(leaf, slot, char);
+		ptr += btrfs_item_size(leaf, item) - data_size;
+		di = (struct btrfs_dir_item *)ptr;
+		btrfs_set_dir_data_len(leaf, di, size);
+		data_ptr = ((unsigned long)(di + 1)) + name_len;
+		write_extent_buffer(leaf, value, data_ptr, size);
+		btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty(leaf);
+	} else {
 		/*
-		 * We have a value to set, so go back and try to insert it now.
+		 * Insert, and we had space for the xattr, so path->slots[0] is
+		 * where our xattr dir_item is and btrfs_insert_xattr_item()
+		 * filled it.
 		 */
-		if (value) {
-			btrfs_release_path(path);
-			goto again;
-		}
 	}
 out:
 	btrfs_free_path(path);

programming_language: C