patch "sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()" added to driver-core tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From e5110f411d2ee35bf8d202ccca2e89c633060dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:25:25 +0800
Subject: sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()

In case of 'if (filp->f_pos ==  0 or 1)' of sysfs_readdir(),
the failure from filldir() isn't handled, and the reference counter
of the sysfs_dirent object pointed by filp->private_data will be
released without clearing filp->private_data, so use after free
bug will be triggered later.

This patch returns immeadiately under the situation for fixing the bug,
and it is reasonable to return from readdir() when filldir() fails.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index c9e1660..e145126 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 		ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, ".", 1, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	if (filp->f_pos == 1) {
 		if (parent_sd->s_parent)
@@ -1028,6 +1030,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 			ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, "..", 2, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
 	for (pos = sysfs_dir_pos(ns, parent_sd, filp->f_pos, pos);
-- 
1.8.0.rc0.18.gf84667d