On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:19:27AM -0500, Richard Hansen wrote:
> On 2013-12-19 18:27, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > The IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctls, despite being defined to take a "long"
> > parameter, actually take "int" parameters.  FUSE unfortunately assumed
> > that the ioctl definitions never lie, and transfers a long's worth of
> > data in and out of userspace, which causes stack smashing in chattr,
> > and other bugs elsewhere.
> > 
> > So, special-case this in FUSE, and document this int/long quirk in
> > include/uapi/linux/fs.h.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  fs/fuse/file.c          |   11 +++++++++++
> >  include/uapi/linux/fs.h |    1 +
> >  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
> > index 7e70506..5fa8181 100644
> > --- a/fs/fuse/file.c
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
> > @@ -2385,6 +2385,17 @@ long fuse_do_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int 
> > cmd, unsigned long arg,
> >             iov->iov_base = (void __user *)arg;
> >             iov->iov_len = _IOC_SIZE(cmd);
> >  
> > +           /*
> > +            * The IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS ioctls take int parameters even though
> > +            * the ioctl definition specifies long.  Userland has been
> > +            * expecting int for ages (and chattr segfaults on FUSE
> > +            * filesystems), so special case that here.  The IOC32
> > +            * variants were declared with int, so they don't need this.
> > +            */
> > +           if (cmd == FS_IOC_GETFLAGS || cmd == FS_IOC_SETFLAGS) {
> > +                   iov->iov_len = sizeof(int);
> > +           }
> > +
> >             if (_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_WRITE) {
> >                     in_iov = iov;
> >                     in_iovs = 1;
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> > index 6c28b61..bc8aa8e 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> > @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
> >  #define FITHAW             _IOWR('X', 120, int)    /* Thaw */
> >  #define FITRIM             _IOWR('X', 121, struct fstrim_range)    /* Trim 
> > */
> >  
> > +/* IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS take an int argument despite being defined to take 
> > long. */
> >  #define    FS_IOC_GETFLAGS                 _IOR('f', 1, long)
> >  #define    FS_IOC_SETFLAGS                 _IOW('f', 2, long)
> >  #define    FS_IOC_GETVERSION               _IOR('v', 1, long)
> 
> This change to include/uapi/linux/fs.h is similar to but not as thorough as:
> 
> http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/27/93
> 
> (The above linked patch is the patch Aurelien referenced in the
> "Argument type for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/FS_IOC_SETFLAGS ioctls" thread on
> linux-fsdevel; see
> <http://mid.gmane.org/[email protected]>.)

Aha!  I thought I'd seen something like that on the list, though it doesn't
seem to be in -rc.  Thank you for pointing that out.

And yes, now that I look at all the [GS]ETVERSION implementations, I think FUSE
could special-case those two ioctls too.

--D
> 
> -Richard
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