v9fs may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry can lead to a crash. In this case it's a NULL pointer dereference in p9_fid_create(). Fix by replacing direct access of file->f_path.dentry with the file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object. Reported-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c index b84c291ba1eb..d7b78d531e63 100644 --- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) v9fs_proto_dotu(v9ses)); fid = file->private_data; if (!fid) { - fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file->f_path.dentry); + fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file_dentry(file)); if (IS_ERR(fid)) return PTR_ERR(fid); @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) * because we want write after unlink usecase * to work. */ - fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file->f_path.dentry); + fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(file)); if (IS_ERR(fid)) { err = PTR_ERR(fid); mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex); @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ v9fs_mmap_file_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma) * because we want write after unlink usecase * to work. */ - fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(filp->f_path.dentry); + fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(filp)); if (IS_ERR(fid)) { retval = PTR_ERR(fid); mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html