linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs:minix: catch inode->i_nlink == 0 in minix

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Message-Id: <20210425074851.14100-1-ducheng2@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:48:51 +0800
From:   Du Cheng <ducheng2@...il.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Du Cheng <ducheng2@...il.com>,
        syzbot+651ca866e5e2b4b5095b@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] fs:minix: catch inode->i_nlink == 0 in minix_rename()

If the destination inode has i_nlink==0, it is invalid. Hence we should
return an error instead of proceeding with drop_nlink() which causes
WARN_ON().

Reported by syzkaller:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=0b1ac5e39c478b05355e189451b5379dc925fd2e

Reported-by: syzbot+651ca866e5e2b4b5095b@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Du Cheng <ducheng2@...il.com>
---
This patch fixed the kernel panic on my testing envionment with the syzbot
reproducer.

This patch works in a similar spirit with the following patch on bad inode:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=facb03dddec04e4aac1bb2139accdceb04deb1f3


 fs/minix/namei.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/minix/namei.c b/fs/minix/namei.c
index 937fa5fae2b8..96761536b8d4 100644
--- a/fs/minix/namei.c
+++ b/fs/minix/namei.c
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static int minix_rename(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 		struct page * new_page;
 		struct minix_dir_entry * new_de;
 
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		if (new_inode->i_nlink == 0)
+			goto out_dir;
+
 		err = -ENOTEMPTY;
 		if (dir_de && !minix_empty_dir(new_inode))
 			goto out_dir;
-- 
2.30.2