Re: [PATCH] locks: use file_inode()

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri Jul 01 2016 - 09:49:36 EST


On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:05:10AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 14:56 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > (Another one for the f_path debacle.)
> >
> > ltp fcntl33 testcase caused an Oops in selinux_file_send_sigiotask.
> >
> > The reason is that generic_add_lease() used filp->f_path.dentry->inode
> > while all the others use file_inode().ÂÂThis makes a difference for files
> > opened on overlayfs since the former will point to the overlay inode the
> > latter to the underlying inode.
> >
> > So generic_add_lease() added the lease to the overlay inode and
> > generic_delete_lease() removed it from the underlying inode.ÂÂWhen the file
> > was released the lease remained on the overlay inode's lock list, resulting
> > in use after free.
> >
> > Reported-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Âfs/locks.c | 2 +-
> > Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> > index 7c5f91be9b65..ee1b15f6fc13 100644
> > --- a/fs/locks.c
> > +++ b/fs/locks.c
> > @@ -1628,7 +1628,7 @@ generic_add_lease(struct file *filp, long arg, struct file_lock **flp, void **pr
> > Â{
> > Â struct file_lock *fl, *my_fl = NULL, *lease;
> > Â struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry;
> > - struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> > + struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
> > Â struct file_lock_context *ctx;
> > Â bool is_deleg = (*flp)->fl_flags & FL_DELEG;
> > Â int error;
>
> Looks good. Al or Bruce, if either of you have remaining patches this
> cycle then could one of you take this one? Otherwise, I can queue up a
> branch with it.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll take it and pass it along in a pull request later today, unless
somebody tells me otherwise.

--b.