linux-kernel - [PATCH] exportfs: do not read dentry after free

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Date:   Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:15:53 +0800
From:   Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] exportfs: do not read dentry after free

The function dentry_connected calls dput(dentry) to drop the previously
acquired reference to dentry. In this case, dentry can be released.
After that, IS_ROOT(dentry) checks the condition
(dentry == dentry->d_parent), which may result in a use-after-free bug.
This patch directly compares dentry with its parent obtained before
dropping the reference.

Fixes: a056cc8934c("exportfs: stop retrying once we race with
rename/remove")

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
---
 fs/exportfs/expfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
index 645158d..a69aaf5 100644
--- a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static bool dentry_connected(struct dentry *dentry)
 		struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry);
 
 		dput(dentry);
-		if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
+		if (dentry == parent) { /* is root entry */
 			dput(parent);
 			return false;
 		}
-- 
2.7.4