virtiofs: forbid newlines in tags

[ Upstream commit 40488cc16f7ea0d193a4e248f0d809c25cc377db ]

Newlines in virtiofs tags are awkward for users and potential vectors
for string injection attacks.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2024-02-12 19:11:47 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 748fb68e11
commit e20977b108

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@ -323,6 +323,16 @@ static int virtio_fs_read_tag(struct virtio_device *vdev, struct virtio_fs *fs)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(fs->tag, tag_buf, len);
fs->tag[len] = '\0';
/* While the VIRTIO specification allows any character, newlines are
* awkward on mount(8) command-lines and cause problems in the sysfs
* "tag" attr and uevent TAG= properties. Forbid them.
*/
if (strchr(fs->tag, '\n')) {
dev_dbg(&vdev->dev, "refusing virtiofs tag with newline character\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
return 0;
}