This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: fix NULL dereference due to data race in prepend_path() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-fix-null-dereference-due-to-data-race-in-prepend_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1cb60beb7d6940a95e6c62af13ab9c95053e9e5f Author: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 14 13:45:28 2020 -0700 fs: fix NULL dereference due to data race in prepend_path() [ Upstream commit 09cad07547445bf3a41683e4d3abcd154c123ef5 ] Fix data race in prepend_path() with re-reading mnt->mnt_ns twice without holding the lock. is_mounted() does check for NULL, but is_anon_ns(mnt->mnt_ns) might re-read the pointer again which could be NULL already, if in between reads one of kern_unmount()/kern_unmount_array()/umount_tree() sets mnt->mnt_ns to NULL. This is seen in production with the following stack trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000048 ... RIP: 0010:prepend_path.isra.4+0x1ce/0x2e0 Call Trace: d_path+0xe6/0x150 proc_pid_readlink+0x8f/0x100 vfs_readlink+0xf8/0x110 do_readlinkat+0xfd/0x120 __x64_sys_readlinkat+0x1a/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x42/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Fixes: f2683bd8d5bd ("[PATCH] fix d_absolute_path() interplay with fsmount()") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c index 0f1fc1743302f..a69e2cd36e6e3 100644 --- a/fs/d_path.c +++ b/fs/d_path.c @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct path *path, if (dentry == vfsmnt->mnt_root || IS_ROOT(dentry)) { struct mount *parent = READ_ONCE(mnt->mnt_parent); + struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns; + /* Escaped? */ if (dentry != vfsmnt->mnt_root) { bptr = *buffer; @@ -116,7 +118,9 @@ static int prepend_path(const struct path *path, vfsmnt = &mnt->mnt; continue; } - if (is_mounted(vfsmnt) && !is_anon_ns(mnt->mnt_ns)) + mnt_ns = READ_ONCE(mnt->mnt_ns); + /* open-coded is_mounted() to use local mnt_ns */ + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mnt_ns) && !is_anon_ns(mnt_ns)) error = 1; // absolute root else error = 2; // detached or not attached yet