tools/xenstore: allow removing child of a node exceeding quota

An unprivileged user of Xenstore is not allowed to write nodes with a
size exceeding a global quota, while privileged users like dom0 are
allowed to write such nodes. The size of a node is the needed space
to store all node specific data, this includes the names of all
children of the node.

When deleting a node its parent has to be modified by removing the
name of the to be deleted child from it.

This results in the strange situation that an unprivileged owner of a
node might not succeed in deleting that node in case its parent is
exceeding the quota of that unprivileged user (it might have been
written by dom0), as the user is not allowed to write the updated
parent node.

Fix that by not checking the quota when writing a node for the
purpose of removing a child's name only.

The same applies to transaction handling: a node being read during a
transaction is written to the transaction specific area and it should
not be tested for exceeding the quota, as it might not be owned by
the reader and presumably the original write would have failed if the
node is owned by the reader.

This is part of XSA-115.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>

diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c
index 97ceabf9642d91945dd6e0ded3c5a0bc33764c2d..b43e1018babdf3c48c9cdd46fcc9b5e7e6570ed6 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.c
@@ -417,7 +417,8 @@ static struct node *read_node(struct connection *conn, const void *ctx,
        return node;
 }
 
-int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node)
+int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node,
+                  bool no_quota_check)
 {
        TDB_DATA data;
        void *p;
@@ -427,7 +428,7 @@ int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node)
                + node->num_perms*sizeof(node->perms[0])
                + node->datalen + node->childlen;
 
-       if (domain_is_unprivileged(conn) &&
+       if (!no_quota_check && domain_is_unprivileged(conn) &&
            data.dsize >= quota_max_entry_size) {
                errno = ENOSPC;
                return errno;
@@ -455,14 +456,15 @@ int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node)
        return 0;
 }
 
-static int write_node(struct connection *conn, struct node *node)
+static int write_node(struct connection *conn, struct node *node,
+                     bool no_quota_check)
 {
        TDB_DATA key;
 
        if (access_node(conn, node, NODE_ACCESS_WRITE, &key))
                return errno;
 
-       return write_node_raw(conn, &key, node);
+       return write_node_raw(conn, &key, node, no_quota_check);
 }
 
 static enum xs_perm_type perm_for_conn(struct connection *conn,
@@ -999,7 +1001,7 @@ static struct node *create_node(struct connection *conn, const void *ctx,
        /* We write out the nodes down, setting destructor in case
         * something goes wrong. */
        for (i = node; i; i = i->parent) {
-               if (write_node(conn, i)) {
+               if (write_node(conn, i, false)) {
                        domain_entry_dec(conn, i);
                        return NULL;
                }
@@ -1039,7 +1041,7 @@ static int do_write(struct connection *conn, struct buffered_data *in)
        } else {
                node->data = in->buffer + offset;
                node->datalen = datalen;
-               if (write_node(conn, node))
+               if (write_node(conn, node, false))
                        return errno;
        }
 
@@ -1115,7 +1117,7 @@ static int remove_child_entry(struct connection *conn, struct node *node,
        size_t childlen = strlen(node->children + offset);
        memdel(node->children, offset, childlen + 1, node->childlen);
        node->childlen -= childlen + 1;
-       return write_node(conn, node);
+       return write_node(conn, node, true);
 }
 
 
@@ -1254,7 +1256,7 @@ static int do_set_perms(struct connection *conn, struct buffered_data *in)
        node->num_perms = num;
        domain_entry_inc(conn, node);
 
-       if (write_node(conn, node))
+       if (write_node(conn, node, false))
                return errno;
 
        fire_watches(conn, in, name, false);
@@ -1514,7 +1516,7 @@ static void manual_node(const char *name, const char *child)
        if (child)
                node->childlen = strlen(child) + 1;
 
-       if (write_node(NULL, node))
+       if (write_node(NULL, node, false))
                barf_perror("Could not create initial node %s", name);
        talloc_free(node);
 }

diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.h b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.h
index c4c32bc88f0ce4cc8bb26420b1a5ded07c973683..29d638fbc5a0701e2651dfefe706b80b484c7b2b 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.h
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_core.h
@@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ void send_ack(struct connection *conn, enum xsd_sockmsg_type type);
 char *canonicalize(struct connection *conn, const void *ctx, const char *node);
 
 /* Write a node to the tdb data base. */
-int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node);
+int write_node_raw(struct connection *conn, TDB_DATA *key, struct node *node,
+                  bool no_quota_check);
 
 /* Get this node, checking we have permissions. */
 struct node *get_node(struct connection *conn,

diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.c b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.c
index 2824f7b359b86ab58c6703e2b7708f5340564384..e87897573469ffaf5333304c2d9216a850a9819b 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.c
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_transaction.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ int access_node(struct connection *conn, struct node *node,
                        i->check_gen = true;
                        if (node->generation != NO_GENERATION) {
                                set_tdb_key(trans_name, &local_key);
-                               ret = write_node_raw(conn, &local_key, node);
+                               ret = write_node_raw(conn, &local_key, node, true);
                                if (ret)
                                        goto err;
                                i->ta_node = true;