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[Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  getxattr: always handle namespaced attributes

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  
  == SRU Justification ==
  When running in a container with a user namespace, if you call getxattr
  with name = "system.posix_acl_access" and size % 8 != 4, then getxattr
  silently skips the user namespace fixup that it normally does resulting in
  un-fixed-up data being returned.
  This is caused by posix_acl_fix_xattr_to_user() being passed the total
  buffer size and not the actual size of the xattr as returned by
  vfs_getxattr().

  I have pushed a commit upstream that fixes this bug:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=82c9a927bc5df6e06b72d206d24a9d10cced4eb5

  This commit passes the actual length of the xattr as returned by
  vfs_getxattr() down.

  A reproducer for the issue is:

    touch acl_posix

    setfacl -m user:0:rwx acl_posix

  and the compile:

    #define _GNU_SOURCE
    #include <errno.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <attr/xattr.h>

    /* Run in user namespace with nsuid 0 mapped to uid != 0 on the host. */
    int main(int argc, void **argv)
    {
            ssize_t ret1, ret2;
            char buf1[128], buf2[132];
            int fret = EXIT_SUCCESS;
            char *file;

            if (argc < 2) {
                    fprintf(stderr,
                            "Please specify a file with "
                            "\"system.posix_acl_access\" permissions set\n");
                    _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }
            file = argv[1];

            ret1 = getxattr(file, "system.posix_acl_access",
                            buf1, sizeof(buf1));
            if (ret1 < 0) {
                    fprintf(stderr, "%s - Failed to retrieve "
                                    "\"system.posix_acl_access\" "
                                    "from \"%s\"\n", strerror(errno), file);
                    _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            ret2 = getxattr(file, "system.posix_acl_access",
                            buf2, sizeof(buf2));
            if (ret2 < 0) {
                    fprintf(stderr, "%s - Failed to retrieve "
                                    "\"system.posix_acl_access\" "
                                    "from \"%s\"\n", strerror(errno), file);
                    _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            if (ret1 != ret2) {
                    fprintf(stderr, "The value of \"system.posix_acl_"
                                    "access\" for file \"%s\" changed "
                                    "between two successive calls\n", file);
                    _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            for (ssize_t i = 0; i < ret2; i++) {
                    if (buf1[i] == buf2[i])
                            continue;

                    fprintf(stderr,
                            "Unexpected different in byte %zd: "
                            "%02x != %02x\n", i, buf1[i], buf2[i]);
                    fret = EXIT_FAILURE;
            }

            if (fret == EXIT_SUCCESS)
                    fprintf(stderr, "Test passed\n");
            else
                    fprintf(stderr, "Test failed\n");

            _exit(fret);
    }
  and run:

    ./tester acl_posix

  On a non-fixed up kernel this should return something like:

    root@c1:/# ./t
    Unexpected different in byte 16: ffffffa0 != 00
    Unexpected different in byte 17: ffffff86 != 00
    Unexpected different in byte 18: 01 != 00

  and on a fixed kernel:

    root@c1:~# ./t
    Test passed

  
  == Fix ==
  82c9a927bc5d ("getxattr: use correct xattr length")

  == Regression Potential ==
  Low.  One liner that passes the actual length of the xattr as returned by
  vfs_getxattr() down.

  == Test Case ==
  A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
  The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.

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