ext4: correctly handle a zero-length xattr with a non-zero e_value_offs
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 23 May 2018 15:31:03 +0000 (11:31 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 23 May 2018 15:31:03 +0000 (11:31 -0400)
commit8a2b307c21d4b290e3cbe33f768f194286d07c23
tree6c55d0950c02c42c96be5297a2154110a48124b0
parenteb9b5f01c33adebc31cbc236c02695f605b0e417
ext4: correctly handle a zero-length xattr with a non-zero e_value_offs

Ext4 will always create ext4 extended attributes which do not have a
value (where e_value_size is zero) with e_value_offs set to zero.  In
most places e_value_offs will not be used in a substantive way if
e_value_size is zero.

There was one exception to this, which is in ext4_xattr_set_entry(),
where if there is a maliciously crafted file system where there is an
extended attribute with e_value_offs is non-zero and e_value_size is
0, the attempt to remove this xattr will result in a negative value
getting passed to memmove, leading to the following sadness:

[   41.225365] EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   44.538641] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff9ec9a3000000
[   44.538733] IP: __memmove+0x81/0x1a0
[   44.538755] PGD 1249bd067 P4D 1249bd067 PUD 1249c1067 PMD 80000001230000e1
[   44.538793] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP PTI
[   44.539074] CPU: 0 PID: 1470 Comm: poc Not tainted 4.16.0-rc1+ #1
    ...
[   44.539475] Call Trace:
[   44.539832]  ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x9e7/0xf80
    ...
[   44.539972]  ext4_xattr_block_set+0x212/0xea0
    ...
[   44.540041]  ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x514/0x610
[   44.540065]  ext4_xattr_set+0x7f/0x120
[   44.540090]  __vfs_removexattr+0x4d/0x60
[   44.540112]  vfs_removexattr+0x75/0xe0
[   44.540132]  removexattr+0x4d/0x80
    ...
[   44.540279]  path_removexattr+0x91/0xb0
[   44.540300]  SyS_removexattr+0xf/0x20
[   44.540322]  do_syscall_64+0x71/0x120
[   44.540344]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x21/0x86

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199347

This addresses CVE-2018-10840.

Reported-by: "Xu, Wen" <wen.xu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: dec214d00e0d7 ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication")
fs/ext4/xattr.c