This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kernfs: fix missing kernfs_idr_lock to remove an ID from the IDR to the 5.10-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: kernfs-fix-missing-kernfs_idr_lock-to-remove-an-id-f.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 85f37765b34fefa7c7fa4b3b2a210c953058985f Author: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 23 10:40:17 2023 +0800 kernfs: fix missing kernfs_idr_lock to remove an ID from the IDR [ Upstream commit 30480b988f88c279752f3202a26b6fee5f586aef ] The root->ino_idr is supposed to be protected by kernfs_idr_lock, fix it. Fixes: 488dee96bb62 ("kernfs: allow creating kernfs objects with arbitrary uid/gid") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523024017.24851-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index 8b3c86a502daa..c91ee05cce74f 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -679,7 +679,9 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, return kn; err_out3: + spin_lock(&kernfs_idr_lock); idr_remove(&root->ino_idr, (u32)kernfs_ino(kn)); + spin_unlock(&kernfs_idr_lock); err_out2: kmem_cache_free(kernfs_node_cache, kn); err_out1: