From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6 1/2] ovl: take a snapshot of the name for copy up
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 19:45:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104184559.3630145-2-amir73il@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104184559.3630145-1-amir73il@gmail.com>
From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
commit 65bf000962a33ec9d2488e4e1797b6cf630abcbb upstream.
The copy up of a directory reads a freed dentry name when a lookup
moves the directory at the same time.
A pointer to the name of a dentry is only valid while something stops
a move of the dentry. ovl_do_copy_up() keeps a plain copy of
c->dentry->d_name in c->destname, and ovl_copy_up_start() only keeps
ovl_rename() away. When a lookup finds the same directory under another
name after a change to the lower layer, d_splice_alias() moves the
dentry and frees its external name.
With a delay in ovl_do_copy_up(), a chmod of a lower-only directory with
a 60 byte name raced with a rename of that directory in the lower layer
and a stat of the new name, and KASAN reported a use-after-free in
lookup_noperm_common().
Fix this by using take_dentry_name_snapshot() for c->destname.
Fixes: 829c28be9bb9 ("ovl: use d_splice_alias() in place of d_add() in lookup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
[backport: destname is set in ovl_copy_up_one(), take the snapshot in
the non-index branch of ovl_do_copy_up() instead]
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -869,6 +869,7 @@ static int ovl_do_copy_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
{
int err;
struct ovl_fs *ofs = OVL_FS(c->dentry->d_sb);
+ struct name_snapshot name;
bool to_index = false;
/*
@@ -897,13 +898,23 @@ static int ovl_do_copy_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
/* Disconnected dentry must be copied up to index dir */
return -EIO;
} else {
+ /*
+ * ovl_copy_up_start() keeps ovl_rename() away from c->dentry,
+ * because ovl_rename() calls ovl_copy_up() on source and target
+ * dentry. It does not stop d_splice_alias() from moving a
+ * directory that a lookup found under another name after a
+ * change to the lower layer. That move frees an external name,
+ * so take a snapshot.
+ */
+ take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, c->dentry);
+ c->destname = name.name;
/*
* Mark parent "impure" because it may now contain non-pure
* upper
*/
err = ovl_set_impure(c->parent, c->destdir);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto out;
}
/* Should we copyup with O_TMPFILE or with workdir? */
@@ -935,6 +946,8 @@ static int ovl_do_copy_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
out:
if (to_index)
kfree(c->destname.name);
+ else
+ release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
return err;
}
@@ -1070,7 +1083,6 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
if (parent) {
ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath);
ctx.destdir = parentpath.dentry;
- ctx.destname = dentry->d_name;
err = vfs_getattr(&parentpath, &ctx.pstat,
STATX_ATIME | STATX_MTIME,
--
backport
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-04 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-04 18:45 [PATCH 6.6 0/2] ovl: backports of fixes that failed to apply Amir Goldstein
2026-11-04 18:45 ` Amir Goldstein [this message]
2026-11-04 18:45 ` [PATCH 6.6 2/2] ovl: use the pinned upper dir in ovl_fix_origin() Amir Goldstein
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