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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Denis Arefev <arefev@swemel.ru>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y] block: Avoid mounting the bdev pseudo-filesystem in userspace
Date: Sat,  4 Jul 2026 07:53:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260704115314.624530-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026070221-delegate-colonize-15f6@gregkh>

From: Denis Arefev <arefev@swemel.ru>

[ Upstream commit f73aa66dffcb8e61e78f01b56163ec16a15d06d2 ]

The bdev pseudo-filesystem is an internal kernel filesystem with which
userspace should not interfere. Unregister it so that userspace cannot
even attempt to mount it.

This fixes a bug [1] that occurs when attempting to access files,
because the system call move_mount() uses pointers declared in the
inode_operations structure, which for the bdev pseudo-filesystem
are always equal to 0. `inode->i_op = &empty_iops;`

[1]

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
 PGD 23380067 P4D 23380067 PUD 23381067 PMD 0
 Oops: 0010 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
 CPU: 2 PID: 17125 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.1.155-syzkaller-00350-g84221fde2681 #0
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:0x0

 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lookup_open.isra.0+0x700/0x1180 fs/namei.c:3460
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3550 [inline]
 path_openat+0x953/0x2700 fs/namei.c:3780
 do_filp_open+0x1c5/0x410 fs/namei.c:3810
 do_sys_openat2+0x171/0x4d0 fs/open.c:1318
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1334 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1350 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1345 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x13c/0x1f0 fs/open.c:1345
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20131010004732.GJ13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/T/#
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Denis Arefev <arefev@swemel.ru>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521072857.5078-1-arefev@swemel.ru
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 block/bdev.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index a8357b72a27b86..598f94827b941f 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -383,16 +383,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blockdev_superblock);
 
 void __init bdev_cache_init(void)
 {
-	int err;
 	static struct vfsmount *bd_mnt;
 
 	bdev_cachep = kmem_cache_create("bdev_cache", sizeof(struct bdev_inode),
 			0, (SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|
 				SLAB_MEM_SPREAD|SLAB_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC),
 			init_once);
-	err = register_filesystem(&bd_type);
-	if (err)
-		panic("Cannot register bdev pseudo-fs");
 	bd_mnt = kern_mount(&bd_type);
 	if (IS_ERR(bd_mnt))
 		panic("Cannot create bdev pseudo-fs");
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-04 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 13:12 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] block: Avoid mounting the bdev pseudo-filesystem in userspace" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-04 11:53 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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