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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 2/2] ovl: use the pinned upper dir in ovl_fix_origin()
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 19:45:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104184559.3630145-3-amir73il@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104184559.3630145-1-amir73il@gmail.com>

From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>

commit 4f61ff2ebfb3d2967b83b6a4d456242244d5a61f upstream.

Renames made directly on the upper filesystem during a lookup crash the
kernel.

A dentry that is passed to vfs_setxattr() must be pinned.
ovl_fix_origin() passes upper->d_parent to ovl_set_impure() without a
reference, and the lookup holds no lock of the upper directory. A
rename on the upper filesystem changes d_parent, and only the child
pins the new parent, so a second rename and an rmdir free it.

With delays in ovl_fix_origin() and ovl_set_impure(), renaming the upper
directory twice and removing the intermediate parent during the lookup
of a merge directory without an origin xattr gave a KASAN
use-after-free in vfs_setxattr().

Fix this by passing the upper dentry that the overlay parent holds.

Fixes: 9678e6303057 ("ovl: fix inconsistent d_ino for legacy merge dir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
[amir: add helper ovl_set_impure_dir()]
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
[ backport: context: ovl_fix_origin() calls ovl_set_origin() ]

 fs/overlayfs/namei.c     | 6 ++++--
 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -883,8 +883,10 @@ static int ovl_fix_origin(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *dentry,
 		return err;
 
 	err = ovl_set_origin(ofs, lower, upper);
-	if (!err)
-		err = ovl_set_impure(dentry->d_parent, upper->d_parent);
+	if (!err) {
+		/* upper->d_parent is not stable, use the overlay parent */
+		err = ovl_set_impure_dir(dentry->d_parent);
+	}
 
 	ovl_drop_write(dentry);
 	return err;
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -492,6 +492,12 @@ int ovl_check_setxattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upperdentry,
 		       enum ovl_xattr ox, const void *value, size_t size,
 		       int xerr);
 int ovl_set_impure(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *upperdentry);
+
+static inline int ovl_set_impure_dir(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	return ovl_set_impure(dentry, ovl_dentry_upper(dentry));
+}
+
 bool ovl_inuse_trylock(struct dentry *dentry);
 void ovl_inuse_unlock(struct dentry *dentry);
 bool ovl_is_inuse(struct dentry *dentry);
-- 
backport

      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 ` [PATCH 6.6 1/2] ovl: take a snapshot of the name for copy up Amir Goldstein
2026-11-04 18:45 ` Amir Goldstein [this message]

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