Commit c71bf113dfdf for kernel
commit c71bf113dfdf426bdaf106636f573ef87b6613a0
Author: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
Date: Fri Aug 14 17:16:17 2026 +0200
drbd: don't leak the shared secret to unprivileged netlink dumps
The conversion to explicit netlink serialization dropped the
exclude_sensitive parameter from net_conf_to_skb(), so each caller has
to sanitize by hand. Two dump paths were missed:
drbd_nl_get_connections_dumpit() and the volume-less connection branch
of get_one_status(). Neither op carries GENL_ADMIN_PERM, so any
unprivileged local user could read the CRAM-HMAC secret.
Add a net_conf_to_skb_sanitized() wrapper and route all three callers
through it.
Fixes: 8098eeb693c4 ("drbd: replace genl_magic with explicit netlink serialization")
Reported-by: Vivek Parikh <vivek.parikh@breachx.ai>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260814151617.73752-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index f9ffcd67607b..b77f901fc3ef 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -3306,6 +3306,26 @@ static int nla_put_drbd_cfg_context(struct sk_buff *skb,
return -EMSGSIZE;
}
+/*
+ * net_conf_to_skb() serializes the shared secret verbatim. Any path that can
+ * answer a request from an unprivileged process must pass exclude_sensitive,
+ * so the secret is blanked in a private copy before it reaches the skb.
+ */
+static int net_conf_to_skb_sanitized(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_conf *nc,
+ bool exclude_sensitive)
+{
+ struct net_conf nc_clean;
+
+ if (!exclude_sensitive)
+ return net_conf_to_skb(skb, nc);
+
+ nc_clean = *nc;
+ memset(nc_clean.shared_secret, 0, sizeof(nc_clean.shared_secret));
+ nc_clean.shared_secret_len = 0;
+
+ return net_conf_to_skb(skb, &nc_clean);
+}
+
/*
* The generic netlink dump callbacks are called outside the genl_lock(), so
* they cannot use the simple attribute parsing code which uses global
@@ -3621,7 +3641,8 @@ int drbd_nl_get_connections_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback
goto out;
net_conf = rcu_dereference(connection->net_conf);
if (net_conf) {
- err = net_conf_to_skb(skb, net_conf);
+ err = net_conf_to_skb_sanitized(skb, net_conf,
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN));
if (err)
goto out;
}
@@ -3842,18 +3863,8 @@ static int nla_put_status_info(struct sk_buff *skb, struct drbd_device *device,
struct net_conf *nc;
nc = rcu_dereference(first_peer_device(device)->connection->net_conf);
- if (nc) {
- if (exclude_sensitive) {
- struct net_conf nc_clean = *nc;
-
- memset(nc_clean.shared_secret, 0,
- sizeof(nc_clean.shared_secret));
- nc_clean.shared_secret_len = 0;
- err = net_conf_to_skb(skb, &nc_clean);
- } else {
- err = net_conf_to_skb(skb, nc);
- }
- }
+ if (nc)
+ err = net_conf_to_skb_sanitized(skb, nc, exclude_sensitive);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
if (err)
@@ -4058,7 +4069,7 @@ static int get_one_status(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct net_conf *nc;
nc = rcu_dereference(connection->net_conf);
- if (nc && net_conf_to_skb(skb, nc) != 0)
+ if (nc && net_conf_to_skb_sanitized(skb, nc, true) != 0)
goto cancel;
}
goto done;