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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12 1257/1276] afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to check if ws_cell is unset first
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:28:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260721152514.222094098@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260721152446.065700225@linuxfoundation.org>

6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

commit 0307d16f3610eb29ad0b7529846de7d62fed60ca upstream.

Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to check if the workstation cell is unset before
doing the RCU pathwalk bit where we dereference that.

Fixes: 823869e1e616 ("afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to handle RCU pathwalk")
Reported-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2481796.1742296819@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Tested-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/afs/dynroot.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/afs/dynroot.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
@@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ static const char *afs_atcell_get_link(s
 	const char *name;
 	bool dotted = vnode->fid.vnode == 3;
 
+	if (!rcu_access_pointer(net->ws_cell))
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+
 	if (!dentry) {
 		/* We're in RCU-pathwalk. */
 		cell = rcu_dereference(net->ws_cell);
@@ -220,9 +223,6 @@ static const char *afs_atcell_get_link(s
 		return name;
 	}
 
-	if (!rcu_access_pointer(net->ws_cell))
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-
 	down_read(&net->cells_lock);
 
 	cell = rcu_dereference_protected(net->ws_cell, lockdep_is_held(&net->cells_lock));



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-21 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20260721152446.065700225@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0734/1276] afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to handle RCU pathwalk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0735/1276] afs: Remove the "autocell" mount option Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0736/1276] afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0745/1276] netfs: Fix writeback error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0749/1276] netfs: Drop the error arg from netfs_read_subreq_terminated() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:19 ` [PATCH 6.12 0750/1276] cifs: Fix missing credit release on failure in cifs_issue_read() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:27 ` [PATCH 6.12 1200/1276] hfs/hfsplus: prevent getting negative values of offset/length Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-07-21 15:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-07-21 15:28 ` [PATCH 6.12 1258/1276] afs: Fix afs_dynroot_readdir() to not use the RCU read lock Greg Kroah-Hartman

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