[PATCH 6.4 783/800] ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_permission()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-07-16T20:29:29Z

From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>

commit 1a73f5b8f079fd42a544c1600beface50c63af7c upstream.

Following process:
P1 P2
path_lookupat
link_path_walk
inode_permission
ovl_permission
ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath)
path->dentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(inode)
drop_cache
__dentry_kill(ovl_dentry)
iput(ovl_inode)
ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode)
dput(oi->__upperdentry)
dentry_kill(upperdentry)
dentry_unlink_inode
upperdentry->d_inode = NULL
realinode = d_inode(realpath.dentry) // return NULL
inode_permission(realinode)
inode->i_sb // NULL pointer dereference
, will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode:
[ 335.664979] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference,
address: 0000000000000002
[ 335.668032] CPU: 0 PID: 2592 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0
[ 335.669956] RIP: 0010:inode_permission+0x33/0x2c0
[ 335.678939] Call Trace:
[ 335.679165] <TASK>
[ 335.679371] ovl_permission+0xde/0x320
[ 335.679723] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0
[ 335.680090] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550
[ 335.680771] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200
[ 335.681170] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240
[ 335.681922] vfs_statx+0xa6/0x1f0
[ 335.682233] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0

Fetch a reproducer in [Link].

Use the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do
non-nullptr checking.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217405
Fixes: 4b7791b2e958 ("ovl: handle idmappings in ovl_permission()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.19
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ int ovl_permission(struct mnt_idmap *idm
int err;

/* Careful in RCU walk mode */
- ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath);
- if (!realpath.dentry) {
+ realinode = ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath);
+ if (!realinode) {
WARN_ON(!(mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK));
return -ECHILD;
}
@@ -302,7 +302,6 @@ int ovl_permission(struct mnt_idmap *idm
if (err)
return err;

- realinode = d_inode(realpath.dentry);
old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
if (!upperinode &&
!special_file(realinode->i_mode) && mask & MAY_WRITE) {