Patch "hfsplus: don't store special "osx" xattr prefix on-disk" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

Patch "hfsplus: don't store special "osx" xattr prefix on-disk" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hfsplus: don't store special "osx" xattr prefix on-disk

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     hfsplus-don-t-store-special-osx-xattr-prefix-on-disk.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From db579e76f06e78de011b2cb7e028740a82f5558c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:47:18 -0700
Subject: hfsplus: don't store special "osx" xattr prefix on-disk

From: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>

commit db579e76f06e78de011b2cb7e028740a82f5558c upstream.

On Mac OS X, HFS+ extended attributes are not namespaced.  Since we want
to be compatible with OS X filesystems and yet still support the Linux
namespacing system, the hfsplus driver implements a special "osx"
namespace that is reported for any attribute that is not namespaced
on-disk.  However, the current code for getting and setting these
unprefixed attributes is broken.

hfsplus_osx_setattr() and hfsplus_osx_getattr() are passed names that have
already had their "osx." prefixes stripped by the generic functions.  The
functions first, quite correctly, check those names to make sure that they
aren't prefixed with a known namespace, which would allow namespace access
restrictions to be bypassed.  However, the functions then prepend "osx."
to the name they're given before passing it on to hfsplus_getattr() and
hfsplus_setattr().  Not only does this cause the "osx." prefix to be
stored on-disk, defeating its purpose, it also breaks the check for the
special "com.apple.FinderInfo" attribute, which is reported for all files,
and as a consequence makes some userspace applications (e.g.  GNU patch)
fail even when extended attributes are not otherwise in use.

There are five commits which have touched this particular code:

  127e5f5ae51e ("hfsplus: rework functionality of getting, setting and deleting of extended attributes")
  b168fff72109 ("hfsplus: use xattr handlers for removexattr")
  bf29e886b242 ("hfsplus: correct usage of HFSPLUS_ATTR_MAX_STRLEN for non-English attributes")
  fcacbd95e121 ("fs/hfsplus: move xattr_name allocation in hfsplus_getxattr()")
  ec1bbd346f18 ("fs/hfsplus: move xattr_name allocation in hfsplus_setxattr()")

The first commit creates the functions to begin with.  The namespace is
prepended by the original code, which I believe was correct at the time,
since hfsplus_?etattr() stripped the prefix if found.  The second commit
removes this behavior from hfsplus_?etattr() and appears to have been
intended to also remove the prefixing from hfsplus_osx_?etattr().
However, what it actually does is remove a necessary strncpy() call
completely, breaking the osx namespace entirely.  The third commit re-adds
the strncpy() call as it was originally, but doesn't mention it in its
commit message.  The final two commits refactor the code and don't affect
its functionality.

This commit does what b168fff attempted to do (prevent the prefix from
being added), but does it properly, instead of passing in an empty buffer
(which is what b168fff actually did).

Fixes: b168fff72109 ("hfsplus: use xattr handlers for removexattr")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Sergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/xattr.c
@@ -806,9 +806,6 @@ end_removexattr:
 static int hfsplus_osx_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 					void *buffer, size_t size, int type)
 {
-	char *xattr_name;
-	int res;
-
 	if (!strcmp(name, ""))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -818,24 +815,19 @@ static int hfsplus_osx_getxattr(struct d
 	 */
 	if (is_known_namespace(name))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	xattr_name = kmalloc(NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE * HFSPLUS_ATTR_MAX_STRLEN
-		+ XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!xattr_name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	strcpy(xattr_name, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX);
-	strcpy(xattr_name + XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN, name);
-
-	res = hfsplus_getxattr(dentry, xattr_name, buffer, size);
-	kfree(xattr_name);
-	return res;
+
+	/*
+	 * osx is the namespace we use to indicate an unprefixed
+	 * attribute on the filesystem (like the ones that OS X
+	 * creates), so we pass the name through unmodified (after
+	 * ensuring it doesn't conflict with another namespace).
+	 */
+	return hfsplus_getxattr(dentry, name, buffer, size);
 }
 
 static int hfsplus_osx_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 		const void *buffer, size_t size, int flags, int type)
 {
-	char *xattr_name;
-	int res;
-
 	if (!strcmp(name, ""))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -845,16 +837,14 @@ static int hfsplus_osx_setxattr(struct d
 	 */
 	if (is_known_namespace(name))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	xattr_name = kmalloc(NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE * HFSPLUS_ATTR_MAX_STRLEN
-		+ XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!xattr_name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	strcpy(xattr_name, XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX);
-	strcpy(xattr_name + XATTR_MAC_OSX_PREFIX_LEN, name);
-
-	res = hfsplus_setxattr(dentry, xattr_name, buffer, size, flags);
-	kfree(xattr_name);
-	return res;
+
+	/*
+	 * osx is the namespace we use to indicate an unprefixed
+	 * attribute on the filesystem (like the ones that OS X
+	 * creates), so we pass the name through unmodified (after
+	 * ensuring it doesn't conflict with another namespace).
+	 */
+	return hfsplus_setxattr(dentry, name, buffer, size, flags);
 }
 
 static size_t hfsplus_osx_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list,


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tommyhebb@gmail.com are

queue-4.0/hfsplus-don-t-store-special-osx-xattr-prefix-on-disk.patch