[PATCH 0/1] getxattr: use correct xattr length

[Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>]

Hey,

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.
I think that the analysis that 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() is correct.
So this commit passes the actual length of the xattr as returned by
vfs_getxattr() down.

It might be worth considering making posix_acl_fix_xattr_userns() and
posix_acl_fix_xattr_to_user() return errors. Such that e.g.
posix_acl_xattr_count() errors can be caught in getxattr(). If that's
something we want I can send a follow-up patch.

More details of this can be found in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199945

Thanks!
Christian

Christian Brauner (1):
  getxattr: use correct xattr length

 fs/xattr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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