Andrey reported a use-after-free in __ns_get_path(): spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] lockref_get_not_dead+0x19/0x80 lib/lockref.c:179 __ns_get_path+0x197/0x860 fs/nsfs.c:66 open_related_ns+0xda/0x200 fs/nsfs.c:143 sock_ioctl+0x39d/0x440 net/socket.c:1001 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1bf/0x1780 fs/ioctl.c:685 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691 We are under rcu read lock protection at that point: rcu_read_lock(); d = atomic_long_read(&ns->stashed); if (!d) goto slow; dentry = (struct dentry *)d; if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref)) goto slow; rcu_read_unlock(); but don't use a proper RCU API on the free path, therefore a parallel __d_free() could free it at the same time. We need to mark the stashed dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS so that __d_free() will be called after all readers leave RCU. Fixes: e149ed2b805f ("take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs") Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nsfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c index 1656843..323f492 100644 --- a/fs/nsfs.c +++ b/fs/nsfs.c @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ static void *__ns_get_path(struct path *path, struct ns_common *ns) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS; dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)ns->ops; d = atomic_long_cmpxchg(&ns->stashed, 0, (unsigned long)dentry); if (d) { -- 2.5.5