kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index e357bc800111..daae2f2dc6d4 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ static int gid_cmp(const void *_a, const void *_b)
         return gid_gt(a, b) - gid_lt(a, b);
 }
 
-static void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
+void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
 {
         sort(group_info->gid, group_info->ngroups, sizeof(*group_info->gid),
              gid_cmp, NULL);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(groups_sort);
 
 /* a simple bsearch */
 int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, kgid_t grp)
@@ -122,7 +123,6 @@ int groups_search(const struct group_info *group_info, kgid_t grp)
 void set_groups(struct cred *new, struct group_info *group_info)
 {
         put_group_info(new->group_info);
-        groups_sort(group_info);
         get_group_info(group_info);
         new->group_info = group_info;
 }
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups, int, gidsetsize, gid_t __user *, grouplist)
                 return retval;
         }
 
+        groups_sort(group_info);
         retval = set_current_groups(group_info);
         put_group_info(group_info);
 
diff --git a/kernel/uid16.c b/kernel/uid16.c
index ce74a4901d2b..ef1da2a5f9bd 100644
--- a/kernel/uid16.c
+++ b/kernel/uid16.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, old_gid_t __user *, grouplist)
                 return retval;
         }
 
+        groups_sort(group_info);
         retval = set_current_groups(group_info);
         put_group_info(group_info);