ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(): lower_dentry->d_inode is not stable
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 3 Nov 2019 18:45:04 +0000 (13:45 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:51:57 +0000 (09:51 +0100)
commit e72b9dd6a5f17d0fb51f16f8685f3004361e83d0 upstream.

lower_dentry can't go from positive to negative (we have it pinned),
but it *can* go from negative to positive.  So fetching ->d_inode
into a local variable, doing a blocking allocation, checking that
now ->d_inode is non-NULL and feeding the value we'd fetched
earlier to a function that won't accept NULL is not a good idea.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c

index 5c5ff9f6fe0798424897101ddd7a1c6b5eb14bb9..52fe815b57d38a729781418b2476f8d7668f05b4 100644 (file)
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_i_size_read(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
 static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
                                     struct dentry *lower_dentry)
 {
-       struct inode *inode, *lower_inode = d_inode(lower_dentry);
+       struct inode *inode, *lower_inode;
        struct ecryptfs_dentry_info *dentry_info;
        struct vfsmount *lower_mnt;
        int rc = 0;
@@ -349,7 +349,15 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
        dentry_info->lower_path.mnt = lower_mnt;
        dentry_info->lower_path.dentry = lower_dentry;
 
-       if (d_really_is_negative(lower_dentry)) {
+       /*
+        * negative dentry can go positive under us here - its parent is not
+        * locked.  That's OK and that could happen just as we return from
+        * ecryptfs_lookup() anyway.  Just need to be careful and fetch
+        * ->d_inode only once - it's not stable here.
+        */
+       lower_inode = READ_ONCE(lower_dentry->d_inode);
+
+       if (!lower_inode) {
                /* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */
                d_add(dentry, NULL);
                return NULL;