The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x a7c4bb43bfdc2b9f06ee9d036028ed13a83df42a # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025102612-kissing-atrocious-4949@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From a7c4bb43bfdc2b9f06ee9d036028ed13a83df42a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Acs acsjakub@amazon.de Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 10:09:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fs/notify: call exportfs_encode_fid with s_umount
Calling intotify_show_fdinfo() on fd watching an overlayfs inode, while the overlayfs is being unmounted, can lead to dereferencing NULL ptr.
This issue was found by syzkaller.
Race Condition Diagram:
Thread 1 Thread 2 -------- --------
generic_shutdown_super() shrink_dcache_for_umount sb->s_root = NULL
| | vfs_read() | inotify_fdinfo() | * inode get from mark * | show_mark_fhandle(m, inode) | exportfs_encode_fid(inode, ..) | ovl_encode_fh(inode, ..) | ovl_check_encode_origin(inode) | * deref i_sb->s_root * | | v fsnotify_sb_delete(sb)
Which then leads to:
[ 32.133461] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI [ 32.134438] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [ 32.135032] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 4468 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #22 PREEMPT(none)
<snip registers, unreliable trace>
[ 32.143353] Call Trace: [ 32.143732] ovl_encode_fh+0xd5/0x170 [ 32.144031] exportfs_encode_inode_fh+0x12f/0x300 [ 32.144425] show_mark_fhandle+0xbe/0x1f0 [ 32.145805] inotify_fdinfo+0x226/0x2d0 [ 32.146442] inotify_show_fdinfo+0x1c5/0x350 [ 32.147168] seq_show+0x530/0x6f0 [ 32.147449] seq_read_iter+0x503/0x12a0 [ 32.148419] seq_read+0x31f/0x410 [ 32.150714] vfs_read+0x1f0/0x9e0 [ 32.152297] ksys_read+0x125/0x240
IOW ovl_check_encode_origin derefs inode->i_sb->s_root, after it was set to NULL in the unmount path.
Fix it by protecting calling exportfs_encode_fid() from show_mark_fhandle() with s_umount lock.
This form of fix was suggested by Amir in [1].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOQ4uxhbDwhb+2Brs1UdkoF0a3NSdBAOQPNfEHjahrgoKJp...
Fixes: c45beebfde34 ("ovl: support encoding fid from inode with no alias") Signed-off-by: Jakub Acs acsjakub@amazon.de Cc: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Cc: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Cc: Miklos Szeredi miklos@szeredi.hu Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz
diff --git a/fs/notify/fdinfo.c b/fs/notify/fdinfo.c index 1161eabf11ee..9cc7eb863643 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fdinfo.c +++ b/fs/notify/fdinfo.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include "fanotify/fanotify.h" #include "fdinfo.h" #include "fsnotify.h" +#include "../internal.h"
#if defined(CONFIG_PROC_FS)
@@ -46,7 +47,12 @@ static void show_mark_fhandle(struct seq_file *m, struct inode *inode)
size = f->handle_bytes >> 2;
+ if (!super_trylock_shared(inode->i_sb)) + return; + ret = exportfs_encode_fid(inode, (struct fid *)f->f_handle, &size); + up_read(&inode->i_sb->s_umount); + if ((ret == FILEID_INVALID) || (ret < 0)) return;