linux-kernel - Re: fs: NULL deref in atime_needs

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Date:	Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:50:45 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
Cc:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: fs: NULL deref in atime_needs_update

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > +	if (unlikely(error > 0)) {
> > +		WARN_ON(1);
> > +		error = -EINVAL;
> > +	}
> >  	if (got_write)
> >  		mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt);
> >  	path_put(&save_parent);
> > 
> 
> I think your warning patch should be upstreamed to detect such cases :)

I'm not sure whether it's better done there or one step closer to the
source - e.g. telling whether it was bogus ->open() or a bogus LSM hook
(and _which_ bogus LSM hook had it been) would be hard with that location
of test.

It still leaves the question of what's going on in Dmitry's tests - it might
be one of those source or it might be something else entirely; this location
of test would at least tell whether a stack underrun is involved or not...