[PATCH v2 06/25] capability: provide helpers for converting between xattrs and vfs_caps

Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu at huaweicloud.com
Mon Mar 4 08:33:06 UTC 2024


On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 13:00 -0600, Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 05:30:55PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * Inner implementation of vfs_caps_to_xattr() which does not return an
> > > + * error if the rootid does not map into @dest_userns.
> > > + */
> > > +static ssize_t __vfs_caps_to_xattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
> > > +				   struct user_namespace *dest_userns,
> > > +				   const struct vfs_caps *vfs_caps,
> > > +				   void *data, size_t size)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct vfs_ns_cap_data *ns_caps = data;
> > > +	struct vfs_cap_data *caps = (struct vfs_cap_data *)ns_caps;
> > > +	kuid_t rootkuid;
> > > +	uid_t rootid;
> > > +
> > > +	memset(ns_caps, 0, size);
> > 
> > size -> sizeof(*ns_caps) (or an equivalent change)
> 
> This is zeroing out the passed buffer, so it should use the size passed
> for the buffer. sizeof(*ns_caps) could potentially be more than the size
> of the buffer.

Uhm, then maybe the problem is that you are passing the wrong argument?

ssize_t
do_getxattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *d,
	struct xattr_ctx *ctx)
{
	ssize_t error;
	char *kname = ctx->kname->name;

	if (is_fscaps_xattr(kname)) {
		struct vfs_caps caps;
		struct vfs_ns_cap_data data;
		int ret;

		ret = vfs_get_fscaps(idmap, d, &caps);
		if (ret)
			return ret;
		/*
		 * rootid is already in the mount idmap, so pass nop_mnt_idmap
		 * so that it won't be mapped.
		 */
		ret = vfs_caps_to_user_xattr(&nop_mnt_idmap, current_user_ns(),
					     &caps, &data, ctx->size);


ctx->size in my case is 1024 bytes.

Roberto

> Maybe it would be clearer if it was memset(data, 0, size)?
> 
> > I was zeroing more (the size of the buffer passed to vfs_getxattr()).
> > 
> > Roberto




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