The patch titled Subject: fs: hfsplus: fix UAF issue in hfsplus_put_super has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is fs-hfsplus-fix-uaf-issue-in-hfsplus_put_super.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-hfsplus-fix-uaf-issue-in-hfsplus_put_super.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: hfsplus: fix UAF issue in hfsplus_put_super Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:49:47 +0800 The current hfsplus_put_super first calls hfs_btree_close on sbi->ext_tree, then invokes iput on sbi->hidden_dir, resulting in an use-after-free issue in hfsplus_release_folio. As shown in hfsplus_fill_super, the error handling code also calls iput before hfs_btree_close. To fix this error, we move all iput calls before hfsplus_btree_close. Note that this patch is tested on Syzbot. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230226124948.3175736-1-mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+57e3e98f7e3b80f64d56@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tested-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/fs/hfsplus/super.c~fs-hfsplus-fix-uaf-issue-in-hfsplus_put_super +++ b/fs/hfsplus/super.c @@ -295,11 +295,11 @@ static void hfsplus_put_super(struct super_block *sb) hfsplus_sync_fs(sb, 1); } + iput(sbi->alloc_file); + iput(sbi->hidden_dir); hfs_btree_close(sbi->attr_tree); hfs_btree_close(sbi->cat_tree); hfs_btree_close(sbi->ext_tree); - iput(sbi->alloc_file); - iput(sbi->hidden_dir); kfree(sbi->s_vhdr_buf); kfree(sbi->s_backup_vhdr_buf); unload_nls(sbi->nls); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx are fs-hfsplus-fix-uaf-issue-in-hfsplus_put_super.patch