[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:33:52 -0500
Subject: xen/blkback: Check device permissions before allowing OP_DISCARD

commit 604c499cbbcc3d5fe5fb8d53306aa0fae1990109 upstream.

We need to make sure that the device is not RO or that
the request is not past the number of sectors we want to
issue the DISCARD operation for.

This fixes CVE-2013-2140.

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell at citrix.com>
[v1: Made it pr_warn instead of pr_debug]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index ef6d9be..bdee5f8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -656,7 +656,18 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	int status = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
 	struct block_device *bdev = blkif->vbd.bdev;
 	unsigned long secure;
+	struct phys_req preq;
+
+	preq.sector_number = req->u.discard.sector_number;
+	preq.nr_sects      = req->u.discard.nr_sectors;

+	err = xen_vbd_translate(&preq, blkif, WRITE);
+	if (err) {
+		pr_warn(DRV_PFX "access denied: DISCARD [%llu->%llu] on dev=%04x\n",
+			preq.sector_number,
+			preq.sector_number + preq.nr_sects, blkif->vbd.pdevice);
+		goto fail_response;
+	}
 	blkif->st_ds_req++;

 	xen_blkif_get(blkif);
@@ -667,7 +678,7 @@ static int dispatch_discard_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
 	err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, req->u.discard.sector_number,
 				   req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
 				   GFP_KERNEL, secure);
-
+fail_response:
 	if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
 		pr_debug(DRV_PFX "discard op failed, not supported\n");
 		status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
--
1.8.1.2