This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin to the 4.14-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-jfs-fix-null-ptr-deref-read-in-txbegin.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d26a25629f17d651ab37052d754e2c24adfa9522 Author: Immad Mir <mirimmad17@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jun 23 19:14:01 2023 +0530 FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin [ Upstream commit 47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27 ] Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code. Reported-By: syzbot+f1faa20eec55e0c8644c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=be7e52c50c5182cc09a09ea6fc456446b2039de3 Signed-off-by: Immad Mir <mirimmad17@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c index 56c3fcbfe80ed..6726dcddd6f86 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c @@ -813,6 +813,11 @@ static int jfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, if (rc) goto out; + if (isReadOnly(ip)) { + jfs_error(ip->i_sb, "read-only filesystem\n"); + return -EROFS; + } + tid = txBegin(ip->i_sb, 0); mutex_lock_nested(&JFS_IP(dir)->commit_mutex, COMMIT_MUTEX_PARENT);