linux-kernel - [PATCH] afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

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Message-ID: <1273400.1655823597@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:59:57 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, marc.dionne@...istor.com,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

Hi Linus,

Could you apply this please?  It fixes an oops inadvertently introduced by
the fix to make afs_getattr() update the status from the server if it was
no longer valid.

Thanks,
David
---
afs: Fix dynamic root getattr

The recent patch to make afs_getattr consult the server didn't account for
the pseudo-inodes employed by the dynamic root-type afs superblock not
having a volume or a server to access, and thus an oops occurs if such a
directory is stat'd.

Fix this by checking to see if the vnode->volume pointer actually points
anywhere before following it in afs_getattr().

This can be tested by stat'ing a directory in /afs.  It may be sufficient
just to do "ls /afs" and the oops looks something like:

        BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
        ...
        RIP: 0010:afs_getattr+0x8b/0x14b
        ...
        Call Trace:
         <TASK>
         vfs_statx+0x79/0xf5
         vfs_fstatat+0x49/0x62

Fixes: 2aeb8c86d499 ("afs: Fix afs_getattr() to refetch file status if callback break occurred")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>
cc: linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165408450783.1031787.7941404776393751186.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
---
 fs/afs/inode.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/inode.c b/fs/afs/inode.c
index 89630acbc2cc..64dab70d4a4f 100644
--- a/fs/afs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/afs/inode.c
@@ -745,7 +745,8 @@ int afs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
 
 	_enter("{ ino=%lu v=%u }", inode->i_ino, inode->i_generation);
 
-	if (!(query_flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC) &&
+	if (vnode->volume &&
+	    !(query_flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC) &&
 	    !test_bit(AFS_VNODE_CB_PROMISED, &vnode->flags)) {
 		key = afs_request_key(vnode->volume->cell);
 		if (IS_ERR(key))