From: Zhihao Cheng chengzhihao1@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit f4e19e595cc2e76a8a58413eb19d3d9c51328b53 ]
Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_path_walk may_lookup inode_permission(rcu) ovl_permission acl_permission_check check_acl get_cached_acl_rcu ovl_get_inode_acl realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_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 ovl_inode_upper upperdentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode) d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer dereference , will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode: [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216 [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300 [ 205.489584] Call Trace: [ 205.489812] <TASK> [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30 [ 205.490466] get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0 [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0 [ 205.491447] ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0 [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0 [ 205.492425] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550 [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200 [ 205.493803] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240 [ 205.495747] 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.
There are some changes from upstream commit: 1. Corrusponds to do_ovl_get_acl() in 6.1 is ovl_get_acl() 2. Context conflicts caused by 6c0a8bfb84af8f3 ("ovl: implement get acl method") is handled.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217404 Fixes: 332f606b32b6 ("ovl: enable RCU'd ->get_acl()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15 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 | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -497,20 +497,20 @@ static void ovl_idmap_posix_acl(struct i */ struct posix_acl *ovl_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type, bool rcu) { - struct inode *realinode = ovl_inode_real(inode); + struct inode *realinode; struct posix_acl *acl, *clone; struct path realpath;
- if (!IS_POSIXACL(realinode)) - return NULL; - /* 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(!rcu); return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); }
+ if (!IS_POSIXACL(realinode)) + return NULL; + if (rcu) { acl = get_cached_acl_rcu(realinode, type); } else {