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    9pfs: introduce relative_openat_nofollow() helper · 6482a961
    Greg Kurz 提交于
    When using the passthrough security mode, symbolic links created by the
    guest are actual symbolic links on the host file system.
    
    Since the resolution of symbolic links during path walk is supposed to
    occur on the client side. The server should hence never receive any path
    pointing to an actual symbolic link. This isn't guaranteed by the protocol
    though, and malicious code in the guest can trick the server to issue
    various syscalls on paths whose one or more elements are symbolic links.
    In the case of the "local" backend using the "passthrough" or "none"
    security modes, the guest can directly create symbolic links to arbitrary
    locations on the host (as per spec). The "mapped-xattr" and "mapped-file"
    security modes are also affected to a lesser extent as they require some
    help from an external entity to create actual symbolic links on the host,
    i.e. another guest using "passthrough" mode for example.
    
    The current code hence relies on O_NOFOLLOW and "l*()" variants of system
    calls. Unfortunately, this only applies to the rightmost path component.
    A guest could maliciously replace any component in a trusted path with a
    symbolic link. This could allow any guest to escape a virtfs shared folder.
    
    This patch introduces a variant of the openat() syscall that successively
    opens each path element with O_NOFOLLOW. When passing a file descriptor
    pointing to a trusted directory, one is guaranteed to be returned a
    file descriptor pointing to a path which is beneath the trusted directory.
    This will be used by subsequent patches to implement symlink-safe path walk
    for any access to the backend.
    
    Symbolic links aren't the only threats actually: a malicious guest could
    change a path element to point to other types of file with undesirable
    effects:
    - a named pipe or any other thing that would cause openat() to block
    - a terminal device which would become QEMU's controlling terminal
    
    These issues can be addressed with O_NONBLOCK and O_NOCTTY.
    
    Two helpers are introduced: one to open intermediate path elements and one
    to open the rightmost path element.
    Suggested-by: NJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
    Reviewed-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
    (renamed openat_nofollow() to relative_openat_nofollow(),
     assert path is relative and doesn't contain '//',
     fixed side-effect in assert, Greg Kurz)
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
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