Re: autofs crash with latest linux-next

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 21:28, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > I hit this since few days as well. Although the bisect points to the
> > merge, the issue looks like a result of mentioned commit 4d03e3cc5982
> > ("fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops").
> >
> > The __kernel_read() last argument 'pos' can be NULL and it is
> > dereferenced here (added by the commit):
> >
> >  525 ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const void *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> > ...
> >  547         kiocb.ki_pos = *pos;
> >  548         iov_iter_kvec(&iter, WRITE, &iov, 1, iov.iov_len);
> >
> >
> > The __kernel_read() is called with NULL in fs/autofs/waitq.c:
> >
> >  45 static int autofs_write(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
> >  46                         struct file *file, const void *addr, int bytes)
> >
> > ...
> >  54         mutex_lock(&sbi->pipe_mutex);
> >  55         while (bytes) {
> >  56                 wr = __kernel_write(file, data, bytes, NULL);
>
> I think the thread here is the same thing, but you've found it in
> autofs...
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgj=mKeN-EfV5tKwJNeHPLG0dybq+R5ZyGuc4WeUnqcmA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Indeed it looks the same. Thanks for the pointer.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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