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Al Viro bdae2f7b20 ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(): lower_dentry->d_parent is not stable either
commit 762c69685f upstream.

We need to get the underlying dentry of parent; sure, absent the races
it is the parent of underlying dentry, but there's nothing to prevent
losing a timeslice to preemtion in the middle of evaluation of
lower_dentry->d_parent->d_inode, having another process move lower_dentry
around and have its (ex)parent not pinned anymore and freed on memory
pressure.  Then we regain CPU and try to fetch ->d_inode from memory
that is freed by that point.

dentry->d_parent *is* stable here - it's an argument of ->lookup() and
we are guaranteed that it won't be moved anywhere until we feed it
to d_add/d_splice_alias.  So we safely go that way to get to its
underlying dentry.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # since 2009 or so
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-11-20 18:45:18 +01:00
arch MIPS: BCM63XX: fix switch core reset on BCM6368 2019-11-20 18:45:10 +01:00
block blkcg: make blkcg_print_stat() print stats only for online blkgs 2019-11-12 19:21:19 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Unmap pages after an external error 2019-10-11 18:20:52 +02:00
Documentation kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages 2019-11-12 19:21:46 +01:00
drivers i2c: acpi: Force bus speed to 400KHz if a Silead touchscreen is present 2019-11-20 18:45:17 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(): lower_dentry->d_parent is not stable either 2019-11-20 18:45:18 +01:00
include kvm: Add helper function for creating VM worker threads 2019-11-12 19:21:46 +01:00
init initramfs: don't free a non-existent initrd 2019-10-01 08:26:09 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid 2019-08-06 19:06:52 +02:00
kernel cpu/speculation: Uninline and export CPU mitigations helpers 2019-11-12 19:21:38 +01:00
lib dump_stack: avoid the livelock of the dump_lock 2019-11-12 19:20:37 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/filemap.c: don't initiate writeback if mapping has no dirty pages 2019-11-12 19:21:20 +01:00
net ipmr: Fix skb headroom in ipmr_get_route(). 2019-11-20 18:45:11 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: seg fault with NULL pointer arg 2019-11-06 13:05:30 +01:00
scripts scripts/setlocalversion: Improve -dirty check with git-status --no-optional-locks 2019-11-06 13:05:27 +01:00
security ima: fix freeing ongoing ahash_request 2019-10-11 18:21:11 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix incorrect size check for processing/extension units 2019-11-20 18:45:13 +01:00
tools usbip: tools: Fix read_usb_vudc_device() error path handling 2019-11-12 19:21:09 +01:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-10-07 18:57:16 +02:00
virt kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages 2019-11-12 19:21:46 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver 2019-10-17 13:44:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.84 2019-11-12 19:21:46 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.