linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devpts: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcache

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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 16:33:02 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Varad Gautam <vrd@...zon.de>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Jan Glauber <jglauber@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devpts: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcache_readdir()

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:27:48PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 04:05:03PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > From: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> > 
> > Closing /dev/pts/ptmx removes the corresponding pty under /dev/pts/
> > without synchronizing against concurrent path walkers. This can lead to
> > 'dcache_readdir()' tripping over a 'struct dentry' with a NULL 'd_inode'
> > field:
> 
> FWIW, vfs.git#fixes (or #next.dcache) ought to deal with that one.

Is it feasible to backport your changes? Or do we want to merge the one
here first and backport?

Christian