From: Tyler Hicks commit 9c2d2056647790c5034d722bd24e9d913ebca73c upstream. 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 +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/387073 Reported-by: Loïc Minier Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks Cc: Chuck Ebbert Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_unlink(struct inode 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) { @@ -456,6 +457,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_unlink(struct inode d_drop(dentry); out_unlock: unlock_dir(lower_dir_dentry); + dput(lower_dentry); return rc; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/