[PATCH 5.3 069/180] ovl: relax WARN_ON() on rename to self

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-16T18:09:57Z

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

commit 6889ee5a53b8d969aa542047f5ac8acdc0e79a91 upstream.

In ovl_rename(), if new upper is hardlinked to old upper underneath
overlayfs before upper dirs are locked, user will get an ESTALE error
and a WARN_ON will be printed.

Changes to underlying layers while overlayfs is mounted may result in
unexpected behavior, but it shouldn't crash the kernel and it shouldn't
trigger WARN_ON() either, so relax this WARN_ON().

Reported-by: syzbot+bb1836a212e69f8e201a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 804032fabb3b ("ovl: don't check rename to self")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
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/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *oldd
if (newdentry == trap)
goto out_dput;

- if (WARN_ON(olddentry->d_inode == newdentry->d_inode))
+ if (olddentry->d_inode == newdentry->d_inode)
goto out_dput;

err = 0;