This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() to the 5.15-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: ovl-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ovl_get_acl_rcu.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f4e19e595cc2e76a8a58413eb19d3d9c51328b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 22:16:19 +0800 Subject: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f4e19e595cc2e76a8a58413eb19d3d9c51328b53 upstream. Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_path_walk may_lookup inode_permission(rcu) ovl_permission acl_permission_check check_acl get_cached_acl_rcu ovl_get_inode_acl realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_inode) drop_cache __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry) iput(ovl_inode) ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode) dput(oi->__upperdentry) dentry_kill(upperdentry) dentry_unlink_inode upperdentry->d_inode = NULL ovl_inode_upper upperdentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode) d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer dereference , will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode: [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216 [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300 [ 205.489584] Call Trace: [ 205.489812] <TASK> [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30 [ 205.490466] get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0 [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0 [ 205.491447] ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0 [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0 [ 205.492425] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550 [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200 [ 205.493803] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240 [ 205.495747] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0 Fetch a reproducer in [Link]. Use the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do non-nullptr checking. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217404 Fixes: 332f606b32b6 ("ovl: enable RCU'd ->get_acl()") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.15 Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -453,7 +453,15 @@ struct posix_acl *ovl_get_acl(struct ino const struct cred *old_cred; struct posix_acl *acl; - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL) || !IS_POSIXACL(realinode)) + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL)) + return NULL; + + if (!realinode) { + WARN_ON(!rcu); + return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + } + + if (!IS_POSIXACL(realinode)) return NULL; if (rcu) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/ovl-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ovl_get_acl_rcu.patch