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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10.y] ovl: check that the parents of volatile/dirty are dirs
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 2026 11:23:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105162313.1978922-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110454-overstate-universe-e323@gregkh>

From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit e34d2ef818e4c7676d8d8e1bf43e6a1ed39efb2a ]

An unprivileged user crashes the kernel by mounting overlayfs with the
volatile option.

A dentry that serves as the parent of a lookup must be a directory.
ovl_create_volatile_dirty() walks work/incompat/volatile/dirty by name,
and ovl_lookup_or_create() returns an existing entry whatever its type.
A file or a symlink that another task creates during the mount becomes
the parent of the next lookup, which calls a NULL ->lookup.

An unprivileged user mounted overlayfs with "volatile" in a user
namespace while a second process created a symlink named work/incompat,
and the mount task oopsed on a NULL ->lookup call.

Fix this by returning -ENOTDIR from ovl_lookup_or_create() when the
caller asked for a directory and the existing entry is a non-dir.

Fixes: c86243b090bc ("ovl: provide a mount option "volatile"")
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>
[ sashal: replaced end_creating(child) with dput(child) while retaining the existing explicit parent unlock ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 5d7df839902df..5b50a3c2289aa 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1242,16 +1242,23 @@ static int ovl_check_rename_whiteout(struct dentry *workdir)
 }
 
 static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_or_create(struct dentry *parent,
-					   const char *name, umode_t mode)
+					   const char *name, bool is_dir)
 {
 	size_t len = strlen(name);
 	struct dentry *child;
 
 	inode_lock_nested(parent->d_inode, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 	child = lookup_one_len(name, parent, len);
-	if (!IS_ERR(child) && !child->d_inode)
-		child = ovl_create_real(parent->d_inode, child,
-					OVL_CATTR(mode));
+	if (!IS_ERR(child)) {
+		if (!child->d_inode) {
+			child = ovl_create_real(parent->d_inode, child,
+						OVL_CATTR(is_dir ? S_IFDIR :
+								   S_IFREG));
+		} else if (is_dir && !d_can_lookup(child)) {
+			dput(child);
+			child = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
+		}
+	}
 	inode_unlock(parent->d_inode);
 	dput(parent);
 
@@ -1272,7 +1279,7 @@ static int ovl_create_volatile_dirty(struct ovl_fs *ofs)
 	const char *const *name = volatile_path;
 
 	for (ctr = ARRAY_SIZE(volatile_path); ctr; ctr--, name++) {
-		d = ovl_lookup_or_create(d, *name, ctr > 1 ? S_IFDIR : S_IFREG);
+		d = ovl_lookup_or_create(d, *name, ctr > 1);
 		if (IS_ERR(d))
 			return PTR_ERR(d);
 	}
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-05 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 14:35 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ovl: check that the parents of volatile/dirty are dirs" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-05 16:23 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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