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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:25:24 -0600
From: dann frazier <dannf@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...us.mitre.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2010-0727 kernel: gfs/gfs2 locking code DoS
flaw
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:17:55PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> static int
> gfs_lock(struct file *file, int cmd, struct file_lock *fl)
> {
> ..
> if ((ip->i_di.di_mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == S_ISGID)
> return -ENOLCK;
> ..
> }
>
> This is a check for mandatory locking where the GFS/GFS2 locking code
> will skip the lock in case sgid bits are set for the file. This can be
> triggered to cause a crash on a system mounting a GFS/GFS2 filesystem.
>
> I believe only GFS2 is part of the upstream kernel, and GFS only affects
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-0727
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/11/269
Looks like a similar issue existed in 9p - can we allocate another CVE
for it?
commit f78233dd44a110c574fe760ad6f9c1e8741a0d00
Author: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@...hat.com>
Date: Sat Mar 13 09:03:55 2010 -0600
9p: Skip check for mandatory locks when unlocking
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dann frazier
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