[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/29] 9pfs: local: truncate: don't follow symlinks

[Greg Kurz]

The local_truncate() callback is vulnerable to symlink attacks because
it calls truncate() which follows symbolic links in all path elements.

This patch converts local_truncate() to rely on open_nofollow() and
ftruncate() instead.

This partly fixes CVE-2016-9602.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
---
 hw/9pfs/9p-local.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
index ebc12f3c0691..da233198d032 100644
--- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
+++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
@@ -888,13 +888,14 @@ err_out:
 
 static int local_truncate(FsContext *ctx, V9fsPath *fs_path, off_t size)
 {
-    char *buffer;
-    int ret;
-    char *path = fs_path->data;
+    int fd, ret;
 
-    buffer = rpath(ctx, path);
-    ret = truncate(buffer, size);
-    g_free(buffer);
+    fd = local_open_nofollow(ctx, fs_path->data, O_WRONLY, 0);
+    if (fd == -1) {
+        return -1;
+    }
+    ret = ftruncate(fd, size);
+    close_preserve_errno(fd);
     return ret;
 }