kernel crash in mknod

[Paul Moore]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 12:50 PM Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com> wrote:
> > From: Al Viro [mailto:viro at ftp.linux.org.uk] On Behalf Of Al Viro
> > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2024 6:47 AM
> > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 12:00:15AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> > > Anyone else seeing this kernel crash in do_mknodat (I see it with a
> > > simple "mkfifo" on smb3 mount).  I started seeing this in 6.9-rc (did
> > > not see it in 6.8).   I did not see it with the 3/12/23 mainline
> > > (early in the 6.9-rc merge Window) but I do see it in the 3/22 build
> > > so it looks like the regression was introduced by:
> >
> >       FWIW, successful ->mknod() is allowed to return 0 and unhash
> > dentry, rather than bothering with lookups.  So commit in question
> > is bogus - lack of error does *NOT* mean that you have struct inode
> > existing, let alone attached to dentry.  That kind of behaviour
> > used to be common for network filesystems more than just for ->mknod(),
> > the theory being "if somebody wants to look at it, they can bloody
> > well pay the cost of lookup after dcache miss".
> >
> > Said that, the language in D/f/vfs.rst is vague as hell and is very easy
> > to misread in direction of "you must instantiate".
> >
> > Thankfully, there's no counterpart with mkdir - *there* it's not just
> > possible, it's inevitable in some cases for e.g. nfs.
> >
> > What the hell is that hook doing in non-S_IFREG cases, anyway?  Move it
> > up and be done with it...
>
> Hi Al
>
> thanks for the patch. Indeed, it was like that before, when instead of
> an LSM hook there was an IMA call.
>
> However, I thought, since we were promoting it as an LSM hook,
> we should be as generic possible, and support more usages than
> what was needed for IMA.
>
> > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> > index ceb9ddf8dfdd..821fe0e3f171 100644
> > --- a/fs/namei.c
> > +++ b/fs/namei.c
> > @@ -4050,6 +4050,8 @@ static int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode,
> >               case 0: case S_IFREG:
> >                       error = vfs_create(idmap, path.dentry->d_inode,
> >                                          dentry, mode, true);
> > +                     if (!error)
> > +                             error = security_path_post_mknod(idmap, dentry);
>
> Minor issue, security_path_post_mknod() does not return an error.
>
> Also, please update the description of security_path_post_mknod() to say
> that it is not going to be called for non-regular files.
>
> Hopefully, Paul also agrees with this change.
>
> Other than that, please add my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>

No objections here for obvious reasons.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

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