From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.177.1]:39177 "EHLO mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752001AbcCASy3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:54:29 -0500 Received: from pmta06.mandrill.prod.suw01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com id hqnima22rtk0 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:54:24 +0000 (envelope-from ) From: Subject: Patch "namei: ->d_inode of a pinned dentry is stable only for positives" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: , Cc: , Message-Id: <145685846196188@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:54:24 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled namei: ->d_inode of a pinned dentry is stable only for positives to the 4.4-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: namei-d_inode-of-a-pinned-dentry-is-stable-only-for-positives.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From d4565649b6d6923369112758212b851adc407f0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:23:16 -0500 Subject: namei: ->d_inode of a pinned dentry is stable only for positives From: Al Viro commit d4565649b6d6923369112758212b851adc407f0c upstream. both do_last() and walk_component() risk picking a NULL inode out of dentry about to become positive, *then* checking its flags and seeing that it's not negative anymore and using (already stale by then) value they'd fetched earlier. Usually ends up oopsing soon after that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1742,11 +1742,11 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameida if (err < 0) return err; - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* we are already out of RCU mode */ err = -ENOENT; if (d_is_negative(path.dentry)) goto out_path_put; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); } if (flags & WALK_PUT) @@ -3130,12 +3130,12 @@ retry_lookup: return error; BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU); - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) { path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); return -ENOENT; } + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); finish_lookup: if (nd->depth) put_link(nd); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are queue-4.4/bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.patch queue-4.4/locks-fix-unlock-when-fcntl_setlk-races-with-a-close.patch queue-4.4/namei-d_inode-of-a-pinned-dentry-is-stable-only-for-positives.patch queue-4.4/uml-fix-hostfs-mknod.patch