This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: let helper ovl_i_path_real() return the realinode to the 6.4-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: ovl-let-helper-ovl_i_path_real-return-the-realinode.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b2dd05f107b11966e26fe52a313b418364cf497b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 22:16:17 +0800 Subject: ovl: let helper ovl_i_path_real() return the realinode From: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b2dd05f107b11966e26fe52a313b418364cf497b upstream. Let helper ovl_i_path_real() return the realinode to prepare for checking non-null realinode in RCU walking path. [msz] Use d_inode_rcu() since we are depending on the consitency between dentry and inode being non-NULL in an RCU setting. Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: ffa5723c6d25 ("ovl: store lower path in ovl_inode") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.19 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h +++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct void ovl_path_upper(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path); void ovl_path_lower(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path); void ovl_path_lowerdata(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path); -void ovl_i_path_real(struct inode *inode, struct path *path); +struct inode *ovl_i_path_real(struct inode *inode, struct path *path); enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_real(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path); enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_realdata(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path); struct dentry *ovl_dentry_upper(struct dentry *dentry); --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_i_dentry_upper(struct return ovl_upperdentry_dereference(OVL_I(inode)); } -void ovl_i_path_real(struct inode *inode, struct path *path) +struct inode *ovl_i_path_real(struct inode *inode, struct path *path) { path->dentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(inode); if (!path->dentry) { @@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ void ovl_i_path_real(struct inode *inode } else { path->mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(OVL_FS(inode->i_sb)); } + + return path->dentry ? d_inode_rcu(path->dentry) : NULL; } struct inode *ovl_inode_upper(struct inode *inode) @@ -1121,8 +1123,7 @@ void ovl_copyattr(struct inode *inode) vfsuid_t vfsuid; vfsgid_t vfsgid; - ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath); - realinode = d_inode(realpath.dentry); + realinode = ovl_i_path_real(inode, &realpath); real_idmap = mnt_idmap(realpath.mnt); vfsuid = i_uid_into_vfsuid(real_idmap, realinode); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.4/ovl-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ovl_get_acl_rcu.patch queue-6.4/ovl-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-ovl_permission.patch queue-6.4/ovl-let-helper-ovl_i_path_real-return-the-realinode.patch