vfs: forbid write access when reading a file into memory

This patch is based on top of the "vfs: support for a common kernel file
loader" patch set.  In general when the kernel is reading a file into
memory it does not want anything else writing to it.

The kernel currently only forbids write access to a file being executed.
This patch extends this locking to files being read by the kernel.

Changelog:
- moved function to kernel_read_file() - Mimi
- updated patch description - Mimi

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@huawei.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index c4010b8207a1..fdecb7615587 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -850,15 +850,25 @@ int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size,
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	ret = deny_write_access(file);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	i_size = i_size_read(file_inode(file));
-	if (max_size > 0 && i_size > max_size)
-		return -EFBIG;
-	if (i_size <= 0)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (max_size > 0 && i_size > max_size) {
+		ret = -EFBIG;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (i_size <= 0) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	*buf = vmalloc(i_size);
-	if (!*buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (!*buf) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	pos = 0;
 	while (pos < i_size) {
@@ -876,18 +886,21 @@ int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size,
 
 	if (pos != i_size) {
 		ret = -EIO;
-		goto out;
+		goto out_free;
 	}
 
 	ret = security_kernel_post_read_file(file, *buf, i_size, id);
 	if (!ret)
 		*size = pos;
 
-out:
+out_free:
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		vfree(*buf);
 		*buf = NULL;
 	}
+
+out:
+	allow_write_access(file);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_read_file);