[PATCH 6.12 0732/1276] afs: Add rootcell checks
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jul 21 08:19:35 PDT 2026
6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
[ Upstream commit 3e914febd79a8d1a78ee6e67ff3fa4214d6d1d57 ]
Add some checks for the validity of the cell name. It's may get put into a
symlink, so preclude it containing any slashes or "..". Also disallow
starting/ending with a dot. This makes /afs/@cell/ as a symlink less of a
security risk.
Also disallow multiple setting of /proc/net/afs/rootcell for any given
network namespace. Once set, the value may not be changed. This makes it
easier to only create /afs/@cell and /afs/. at cell if there's a rootcell.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107183454.608451-3-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: c9c3b615a462 ("afs: Fix misplaced inc of net->cells_outstanding")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
fs/afs/cell.c | 8 ++++++++
fs/afs/proc.c | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 1aba6d4d03a9b0..cee42646736c86 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -367,6 +367,14 @@ int afs_cell_init(struct afs_net *net, const char *rootcell)
len = cp - rootcell;
}
+ if (len == 0 || !rootcell[0] || rootcell[0] == '.' || rootcell[len - 1] == '.')
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (memchr(rootcell, '/', len))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ cp = strstr(rootcell, "..");
+ if (cp && cp < rootcell + len)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* allocate a cell record for the root cell */
new_root = afs_lookup_cell(net, rootcell, len, vllist, false);
if (IS_ERR(new_root)) {
diff --git a/fs/afs/proc.c b/fs/afs/proc.c
index 15eab053af6dc0..e7614f4f30c21e 100644
--- a/fs/afs/proc.c
+++ b/fs/afs/proc.c
@@ -240,7 +240,13 @@ static int afs_proc_rootcell_write(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
/* determine command to perform */
_debug("rootcell=%s", buf);
- ret = afs_cell_init(net, buf);
+ ret = -EEXIST;
+ inode_lock(file_inode(file));
+ if (!net->ws_cell)
+ ret = afs_cell_init(net, buf);
+ else
+ printk("busy\n");
+ inode_unlock(file_inode(file));
out:
_leave(" = %d", ret);
--
2.53.0
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