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Message-ID: <20160603212652.GT14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 22:26:52 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>,
"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Mailing List"
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dcache oops
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:18:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So something must have corrupted the qstr.
>
> The remaining length *should* in %edi, judging by the
>
> 0xffffffff81243b82 <+306>: cmp $0x7,%edi
>
> in the __d_lookup() disassembly. And %rdi contains 2, so there were
> supposed to be two more characters at 'ct' (which is %rdx).
... and since r8 and rsi are 0, we couldn't have consumed anything.
>
> Why would nd->last.name be bogus? I don't see anything.
An interesting part is that it's page-aligned. Which is impossible for
a short name obtained by getname(), but is quite likely for a symlink body.
So at a guess, we have a page containing a symlink body freed under us.
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