+++ /dev/null
-From 1a73f5b8f079fd42a544c1600beface50c63af7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
-Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 22:16:18 +0800
-Subject: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_permission()
-
-From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
-
-commit 1a73f5b8f079fd42a544c1600beface50c63af7c upstream.
-
-Following process:
- P1 P2
- path_lookupat
- link_path_walk
- inode_permission
- ovl_permission
- ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath)
- path->dentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(inode)
- drop_cache
- __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry)
- iput(ovl_inode)
- ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode)
- dput(oi->__upperdentry)
- dentry_kill(upperdentry)
- dentry_unlink_inode
- upperdentry->d_inode = NULL
- realinode = d_inode(realpath.dentry) // return NULL
- inode_permission(realinode)
- inode->i_sb // NULL pointer dereference
-, will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode:
- [ 335.664979] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference,
- address: 0000000000000002
- [ 335.668032] CPU: 0 PID: 2592 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0
- [ 335.669956] RIP: 0010:inode_permission+0x33/0x2c0
- [ 335.678939] Call Trace:
- [ 335.679165] <TASK>
- [ 335.679371] ovl_permission+0xde/0x320
- [ 335.679723] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0
- [ 335.680090] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550
- [ 335.680771] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200
- [ 335.681170] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240
- [ 335.681922] vfs_statx+0xa6/0x1f0
- [ 335.682233] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0
-
-Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
-
-Use the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do
-non-nullptr checking.
-
-Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217405
-Fixes: 4b7791b2e958 ("ovl: handle idmappings in ovl_permission()")
-Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.19
-Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
-Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
-Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
-Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
-Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
----
- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 5 ++---
- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
-
---- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
-+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
-@@ -286,8 +286,8 @@ int ovl_permission(struct user_namespace
- int err;
-
- /* Careful in RCU walk mode */
-- ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath);
-- if (!realpath.dentry) {
-+ realinode = ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath);
-+ if (!realinode) {
- WARN_ON(!(mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK));
- return -ECHILD;
- }
-@@ -300,7 +300,6 @@ int ovl_permission(struct user_namespace
- if (err)
- return err;
-
-- realinode = d_inode(realpath.dentry);
- old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
- if (!upperinode &&
- !special_file(realinode->i_mode) && mask & MAY_WRITE) {