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[PATCH 5.10 063/131] cgroup1: dont allow \n in renaming

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-06-14 11:12:07
Also in: lkml

From: Alexander Kuznetsov <redacted>

commit b7e24eb1caa5f8da20d405d262dba67943aedc42 upstream.

cgroup_mkdir() have restriction on newline usage in names:
$ mkdir $'/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test\ntest2'
mkdir: cannot create directory
'/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test\ntest2': Invalid argument

But in cgroup1_rename() such check is missed.
This allows us to make /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable:
$ mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test
$ mv /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test $'/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test\ntest2'
$ echo $$ > $'/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test\ntest2'
$ cat /proc/self/cgroup
11:pids:/
10:freezer:/
9:hugetlb:/
8:cpuset:/
7:blkio:/user.slice
6:memory:/user.slice
5:net_cls,net_prio:/
4:perf_event:/
3:devices:/user.slice
2:cpu,cpuacct:/test
test2
1:name=systemd:/
0::/

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuznetsov <redacted>
Reported-by: Andrey Krasichkov <redacted>
Acked-by: Dmitry Yakunin <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -820,6 +820,10 @@ static int cgroup1_rename(struct kernfs_
 	struct cgroup *cgrp = kn->priv;
 	int ret;
 
+	/* do not accept '\n' to prevent making /proc/<pid>/cgroup unparsable */
+	if (strchr(new_name_str, '\n'))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_DIR)
 		return -ENOTDIR;
 	if (kn->parent != new_parent)

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