From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Since ->d_compare() and ->d_hash() can be called in RCU-walk mode, ->d_parent and ->d_inode can be concurrently modified, and in particular, ->d_inode may be changed to NULL. For ext4_d_hash() this resulted in a reproducible NULL dereference if a lookup is done in a directory being deleted, e.g. with: int main() { if (fork()) { for (;;) { mkdir("subdir", 0700); rmdir("subdir"); } } else { for (;;) access("subdir/file", 0); } } ... or by running the 't_encrypted_d_revalidate' program from xfstests. Both repros work in any directory on a filesystem with the encoding feature, even if the directory doesn't actually have the casefold flag. I couldn't reproduce a crash in ext4_d_compare(), but it appears that a similar crash is possible there. Fix these bugs by reading ->d_parent and ->d_inode using READ_ONCE() and falling back to the case sensitive behavior if the inode is NULL. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b886ee3e778e ("ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.2+ Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/dir.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c index 8964778aabefb..0129d14629881 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/dir.c +++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c @@ -671,9 +671,11 @@ static int ext4_d_compare(const struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int len, const char *str, const struct qstr *name) { struct qstr qstr = {.name = str, .len = len }; - struct inode *inode = dentry->d_parent->d_inode; + const struct dentry *parent = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_parent); + const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(parent->d_inode); - if (!IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) || !EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_encoding) { + if (!inode || !IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) || + !EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_encoding) { if (len != name->len) return -1; return memcmp(str, name->name, len); @@ -686,10 +688,11 @@ static int ext4_d_hash(const struct dentry *dentry, struct qstr *str) { const struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(dentry->d_sb); const struct unicode_map *um = sbi->s_encoding; + const struct inode *inode = READ_ONCE(dentry->d_inode); unsigned char *norm; int len, ret = 0; - if (!IS_CASEFOLDED(dentry->d_inode) || !um) + if (!inode || !IS_CASEFOLDED(inode) || !um) return 0; norm = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC); -- 2.25.0