As specified in the http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/open :
"An attempt to create a file in a directory where the given name already exists will be rejected" Malicious code in a guest could for example create a named pipe and then pass its name to the server in a RLCREATE message. This would cause QEMU to hang in open(), waiting for someone to open the other end of the pipe. Let's fix this by simply using O_EXCL. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <[email protected]> --- hw/9pfs/9p.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p.c b/hw/9pfs/9p.c index edd7b97270e3..d9686601deda 100644 --- a/hw/9pfs/9p.c +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p.c @@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static void coroutine_fn v9fs_lcreate(void *opaque) flags = get_dotl_openflags(pdu->s, flags); err = v9fs_co_open2(pdu, fidp, &name, gid, - flags | O_CREAT, mode, &stbuf); + flags | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, mode, &stbuf); if (err < 0) { goto out; } @@ -2252,7 +2252,8 @@ static void coroutine_fn v9fs_create(void *opaque) v9fs_path_copy(&fidp->path, &path); } else { err = v9fs_co_open2(pdu, fidp, &name, -1, - omode_to_uflags(mode)|O_CREAT, perm, &stbuf); + omode_to_uflags(mode) | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, perm, + &stbuf); if (err < 0) { goto out; }
