Commit e72b9dd6 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(): lower_dentry->d_inode is not stable



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: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent bcf0d9d4
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@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_i_size_read(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
				     struct dentry *lower_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 ecryptfs_dentry_info *dentry_info;
	struct vfsmount *lower_mnt;
	struct vfsmount *lower_mnt;
	int rc = 0;
	int rc = 0;
@@ -339,7 +339,15 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry,
	dentry_info->lower_path.mnt = lower_mnt;
	dentry_info->lower_path.mnt = lower_mnt;
	dentry_info->lower_path.dentry = lower_dentry;
	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 */
		/* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */
		d_add(dentry, NULL);
		d_add(dentry, NULL);
		return NULL;
		return NULL;