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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-11-04 10:55:34 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-12-22 09:29:40 +0100
commitf9f300a92297be8250547347fd52216ef0177ae0 (patch)
tree45401046aef29b3c2898e20f557ee52d48d5098e
parentba2a9d8f8ef139c5782579dc87058d71a0393c7e (diff)
ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()
commit 1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c upstream. Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovl_workdir_create() -> ovl_create_real(): if (!err && WARN_ON(!newdentry->d_inode)) { The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without instantiating the new dentry. Weird filesystems such as this will be rejected by overlayfs at a later stage during setup, but to prevent such a warning, call ovl_mkdir_real() directly from ovl_workdir_create() and reject this case early. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+75eab84fd0af9e8bf66b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c3
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c12
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 876de87f604c..8c89eaea1583 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -113,8 +113,7 @@ kill_whiteout:
goto out;
}
-static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry,
- umode_t mode)
+int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry, umode_t mode)
{
int err;
struct dentry *d, *dentry = *newdentry;
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 6934bcf030f0..a8e9da5f01eb 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ struct ovl_cattr {
#define OVL_CATTR(m) (&(struct ovl_cattr) { .mode = (m) })
+int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry, umode_t mode);
struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
struct ovl_cattr *attr);
int ovl_cleanup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index f036d7544d4a..f5cf0938f298 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -650,10 +650,14 @@ retry:
goto retry;
}
- work = ovl_create_real(dir, work, OVL_CATTR(attr.ia_mode));
- err = PTR_ERR(work);
- if (IS_ERR(work))
- goto out_err;
+ err = ovl_mkdir_real(dir, &work, attr.ia_mode);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_dput;
+
+ /* Weird filesystem returning with hashed negative (kernfs)? */
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ if (d_really_is_negative(work))
+ goto out_dput;
/*
* Try to remove POSIX ACL xattrs from workdir. We are good if: