From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH 4.4 115/342] namei: ->d_inode of a pinned dentry is stable only for positives To: Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , , Al Viro Message-Id: <20160301234531.676235144@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160301234527.990448862@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160301234527.990448862@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:54:21 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro commit d4565649b6d6923369112758212b851adc407f0c upstream. both do_last() and walk_component() risk picking a NULL inode out of dentry about to become positive, *then* checking its flags and seeing that it's not negative anymore and using (already stale by then) value they'd fetched earlier. Usually ends up oopsing soon after that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1742,11 +1742,11 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameida if (err < 0) return err; - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* we are already out of RCU mode */ err = -ENOENT; if (d_is_negative(path.dentry)) goto out_path_put; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); } if (flags & WALK_PUT) @@ -3130,12 +3130,12 @@ retry_lookup: return error; BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU); - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) { path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); return -ENOENT; } + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); finish_lookup: if (nd->depth) put_link(nd);