From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de
[ Upstream commit 400188ae361a9d9a72a47a6cedaf2d2efcc84aa8 ]
kernfs_notify_workfn() dereferences kernfs_node::name and passes it later to fsnotify(). If the node is renamed then the previously observed name pointer becomes invalid.
Acquire kernfs_root::kernfs_rwsem to block renames of the node.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250213145023.2820193-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c index 8502ef68459b9..165d8e37976ba 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/file.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c @@ -911,6 +911,7 @@ static void kernfs_notify_workfn(struct work_struct *work) /* kick fsnotify */
down_read(&root->kernfs_supers_rwsem); + down_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem); list_for_each_entry(info, &kernfs_root(kn)->supers, node) { struct kernfs_node *parent; struct inode *p_inode = NULL; @@ -947,6 +948,7 @@ static void kernfs_notify_workfn(struct work_struct *work) iput(inode); }
+ up_read(&root->kernfs_rwsem); up_read(&root->kernfs_supers_rwsem); kernfs_put(kn); goto repeat;