Re: [PATCH] autofs: sanity check status reported with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL

[Ian Kent]

On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 12:13 +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15 2017, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:08:38 +1000 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > If a positive status is passed with the AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL
> > > ioctl, autofs4_d_automount() will return
> > > ÂÂÂERR_PTR(status)
> > > with that status to follow_automount(), which will then
> > > dereference an invalid pointer.
> > > 
> > > So treat a positive status the same as zero, and map
> > > to ENOENT.
> > > 
> > > See comment in systemd src/core/automount.c::automount_send_ready().
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > --- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > > +++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > > @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_fail(struct file *fp,
> > > Â	int status;
> > > Â
> > > Â	token = (autofs_wqt_t) param->fail.token;
> > > -	status = param->fail.status ? param->fail.status : -ENOENT;
> > > +	status = param->fail.status < 0 ? param->fail.status : -ENOENT;
> > > Â	return autofs4_wait_release(sbi, token, status);
> > > Â}
> > 
> > Sounds serious.ÂÂWas the absence of a cc:stable deliberate?
> 
> You need CAP_SYS_ADMIN toÂÂget the ioctl even looked at.ÂÂDoesn't that
> mean the bug can only be triggered by a process that could easily do
> worse?

Think so, yes.

> 
> Or do containers allow admins to give out CAP_SYS_ADMIN to untrusted
> people??ÂÂI haven't been keeping up.

Maybe, with docker root can start a container with --privileged to give the
container admin capabilities. It may be the case that capabilities can be used
now I don't know.

> 
> Given how simple the patch is, it probably makes sense to add a
> cc:stable, just in case.

IMHO it needs to be applied to stable as well.

> 
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown