[PATCH 5.15 70/73] fs/mount_setattr: always cleanup mount_kattr

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 03 2022 - 09:41:00 EST


From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 012e332286e2bb9f6ac77d195f17e74b2963d663 upstream.

Make sure that finish_mount_kattr() is called after mount_kattr was
succesfully built in both the success and failure case to prevent
leaking any references we took when we built it. We returned early if
path lookup failed thereby risking to leak an additional reference we
took when building mount_kattr when an idmapped mount was requested.

Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9caccd41541a ("fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namespace.c | 9 ++++-----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -4263,12 +4263,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mount_setattr, int, dfd,
return err;

err = user_path_at(dfd, path, kattr.lookup_flags, &target);
- if (err)
- return err;
-
- err = do_mount_setattr(&target, &kattr);
+ if (!err) {
+ err = do_mount_setattr(&target, &kattr);
+ path_put(&target);
+ }
finish_mount_kattr(&kattr);
- path_put(&target);
return err;
}