linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] jffs2: move jffs2_init_inode

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 19:44:51 +0800
From:   "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
To:     <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
CC:     <ast@...nel.org>, <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>, <yihuaijie@...wei.com>,
        <zhongguohua1@...wei.com>, <chenjie6@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: move jffs2_init_inode_info() just after allocating
 inode

ping.

On 2020/1/6 16:04, zhangyi (F) wrote:
> After commit 4fdcfab5b553 ("jffs2: fix use-after-free on symlink
> traversal"), it expose a freeing uninitialized memory problem due to
> this commit move the operaion of freeing f->target to
> jffs2_i_callback(), which may not be initialized in some error path of
> allocating jffs2 inode (eg: jffs2_iget()->iget_locked()->
> destroy_inode()->..->jffs2_i_callback()->kfree(f->target)).
> 
> Fix this by initialize the jffs2_inode_info just after allocating it.
> 
> Reported-by: Guohua Zhong <zhongguohua1@...wei.com>
> Reported-by: Huaijie Yi <yihuaijie@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@...wei.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  fs/jffs2/fs.c    | 2 --
>  fs/jffs2/super.c | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> index ab8cdd9e9325..50a9df7d43a5 100644
> --- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> +++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
> @@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ struct inode *jffs2_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
>  	f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
>  	c = JFFS2_SB_INFO(inode->i_sb);
>  
> -	jffs2_init_inode_info(f);
>  	mutex_lock(&f->sem);
>  
>  	ret = jffs2_do_read_inode(c, f, inode->i_ino, &latest_node);
> @@ -438,7 +437,6 @@ struct inode *jffs2_new_inode (struct inode *dir_i, umode_t mode, struct jffs2_r
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
>  	f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
> -	jffs2_init_inode_info(f);
>  	mutex_lock(&f->sem);
>  
>  	memset(ri, 0, sizeof(*ri));
> diff --git a/fs/jffs2/super.c b/fs/jffs2/super.c
> index 0e6406c4f362..90373898587f 100644
> --- a/fs/jffs2/super.c
> +++ b/fs/jffs2/super.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ static struct inode *jffs2_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>  	f = kmem_cache_alloc(jffs2_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!f)
>  		return NULL;
> +
> +	jffs2_init_inode_info(f);
>  	return &f->vfs_inode;
>  }
>  
>