NFS: guard against confused server in nfs_atomic_open()

A confused server could return a filehandle for an
NFSv4 OPEN request, which it previously returned for a directory.
So the inode returned by  ->open_context() in nfs_atomic_open()
could conceivably be a directory inode.

This has particular implications for the call to
nfs_file_set_open_context() in nfs_finish_open().
If that is called on a directory inode, then the nfs_open_context
that gets stored in the filp->private_data will be linked to
nfs_inode->open_files.

When the directory is closed, nfs_closedir() will (ultimately)
free the ->private_data, but not unlink it from nfs_inode->open_files
(because it doesn't expect an nfs_open_context there).

Subsequently the memory could get used for something else and eventually
if the ->open_files list is walked, the walker will fall off the end and
crash.

So: change nfs_finish_open() to only call nfs_file_set_open_context()
for regular-file inodes.

This failure mode has been seen in a production setting (unknown NFS
server implementation).  The kernel was v3.0 and the specific sequence
seen would not affect more recent kernels, but I think a risk is still
present, and caution is wise.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 98b18aa..90bc402 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1431,8 +1431,10 @@ static int nfs_finish_open(struct nfs_open_context *ctx,
 	err = finish_open(file, dentry, do_open, opened);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
-	nfs_file_set_open_context(file, ctx);
-
+	if (S_ISREG(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+		nfs_file_set_open_context(file, ctx);
+	else
+		err = -ESTALE;
 out:
 	return err;
 }