mirrors
/
linux-stable
mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

eCryptfs: Prevent lower dentry from going negative during unlink 

When calling vfs_unlink() on the lower dentry, d_delete() turns the
dentry into a negative dentry when the d_count is 1.  This eventually
caused a NULL pointer deref when a read() or write() was done and the
negative dentry's d_inode was dereferenced in
ecryptfs_read_update_atime() or ecryptfs_getxattr().

Placing mutt's tmpdir in an eCryptfs mount is what initially triggered
the oops and I was able to reproduce it with the following sequence:

open("/tmp/upper/foo", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW, 0600) = 3
link("/tmp/upper/foo", "/tmp/upper/bar") = 0
unlink("/tmp/upper/foo")                = 0
open("/tmp/upper/bar", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOFOLLOW, 0600) = 4
unlink("/tmp/upper/bar")                = 0
write(4, "eCryptfs test\n"..., 14 <unfinished ...>
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/387073

Reported-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Tyler Hicks 2009-09-22 12:52:17 -05:00
parent 96a7b9c2f5
commit 9c2d205664
1 changed files with 2 additions and 0 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

2
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
View File

@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
struct inode *lower_dir_inode = ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(dir);
struct dentry *lower_dir_dentry;
dget(lower_dentry);
lower_dir_dentry = lock_parent(lower_dentry);
rc = vfs_unlink(lower_dir_inode, lower_dentry);
if (rc) {
@ -489,6 +490,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
d_drop(dentry);
out_unlock:
unlock_dir(lower_dir_dentry);
dput(lower_dentry);
return rc;
}