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eCryptfs: Larger buffer for encrypted symlink targets
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When using filename encryption with eCryptfs, the value of the symlink
in the lower filesystem is encrypted and stored as a Tag 70 packet.
This results in a longer symlink target than if the target value wasn't
encrypted.

Users were reporting these messages in their syslog:

[ 45.653441] ecryptfs_parse_tag_70_packet: max_packet_size is [56]; real
packet size is [51]
[ 45.653444] ecryptfs_decode_and_decrypt_filename: Could not parse tag
70 packet from filename; copying through filename as-is

This was due to bufsiz, one the arguments in readlink(), being used to
when allocating the buffer passed to the lower inode's readlink().
That symlink target may be very large, but when decoded and decrypted,
could end up being smaller than bufsize.

To fix this, the buffer passed to the lower inode's readlink() will
always be PATH_MAX in size when filename encryption is enabled.  Any
necessary truncation occurs after the decoding and decrypting.

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks committed Apr 22, 2009
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24 changes: 18 additions & 6 deletions fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -640,8 +640,9 @@ static int
ecryptfs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)
{
char *lower_buf;
size_t lower_bufsiz;
struct dentry *lower_dentry;
struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat;
struct ecryptfs_mount_crypt_stat *mount_crypt_stat;
char *plaintext_name;
size_t plaintext_name_size;
mm_segment_t old_fs;
Expand All @@ -652,20 +653,29 @@ ecryptfs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)
rc = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_inode_to_private(dentry->d_inode)->crypt_stat;
mount_crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_superblock_to_private(
dentry->d_sb)->mount_crypt_stat;
/*
* If the lower filename is encrypted, it will result in a significantly
* longer name. If needed, truncate the name after decode and decrypt.
*/
if (mount_crypt_stat->flags & ECRYPTFS_GLOBAL_ENCRYPT_FILENAMES)
lower_bufsiz = PATH_MAX;
else
lower_bufsiz = bufsiz;
/* Released in this function */
lower_buf = kmalloc(bufsiz, GFP_KERNEL);
lower_buf = kmalloc(lower_bufsiz, GFP_KERNEL);
if (lower_buf == NULL) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst attempting to "
"kmalloc [%d] bytes\n", __func__, bufsiz);
"kmalloc [%d] bytes\n", __func__, lower_bufsiz);
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(get_ds());
rc = lower_dentry->d_inode->i_op->readlink(lower_dentry,
(char __user *)lower_buf,
bufsiz);
lower_bufsiz);
set_fs(old_fs);
if (rc >= 0) {
rc = ecryptfs_decode_and_decrypt_filename(&plaintext_name,
Expand All @@ -678,7 +688,9 @@ ecryptfs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)
rc);
goto out_free_lower_buf;
}
rc = copy_to_user(buf, plaintext_name, plaintext_name_size);
/* Check for bufsiz <= 0 done in sys_readlinkat() */
rc = copy_to_user(buf, plaintext_name,
min((unsigned) bufsiz, plaintext_name_size));
if (rc)
rc = -EFAULT;
else
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