Patch "sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sysfs-handle-failure-path-correctly-for-readdir.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e5110f411d2ee35bf8d202ccca2e89c633060dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:25:25 +0800
Subject: sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()

From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>

commit e5110f411d2ee35bf8d202ccca2e89c633060dca upstream.

In case of 'if (filp->f_pos ==  0 or 1)' of sysfs_readdir(),
the failure from filldir() isn't handled, and the reference counter
of the sysfs_dirent object pointed by filp->private_data will be
released without clearing filp->private_data, so use after free
bug will be triggered later.

This patch returns immeadiately under the situation for fixing the bug,
and it is reasonable to return from readdir() when filldir() fails.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * f
 		ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, ".", 1, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	if (filp->f_pos == 1) {
 		if (parent_sd->s_parent)
@@ -1028,6 +1030,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * f
 			ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, "..", 2, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
 	for (pos = sysfs_dir_pos(ns, parent_sd, filp->f_pos, pos);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ming.lei@canonical.com are

queue-3.8/bluetooth-add-support-for-dell.patch
queue-3.8/sysfs-handle-failure-path-correctly-for-readdir.patch
queue-3.8/bluetooth-add-support-for-dell_2.patch
queue-3.8/sysfs-fix-race-between-readdir-and-lseek.patch