This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode to the 6.1-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: filelock-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-posix_lock_.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6e27922202afc4a8a4ff04e6bbccd83c1d5bf81f Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 2 18:44:48 2024 -0400 filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode [ Upstream commit 1b3ec4f7c03d4b07bad70697d7e2f4088d2cfe92 ] Light Hsieh reported a KASAN UAF warning in trace_posix_lock_inode(). The request pointer had been changed earlier to point to a lock entry that was added to the inode's list. However, before the tracepoint could fire, another task raced in and freed that lock. Fix this by moving the tracepoint inside the spinlock, which should ensure that this doesn't happen. Fixes: 74f6f5912693 ("locks: fix KASAN: use-after-free in trace_event_raw_event_filelock_lock") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/724ffb0a2962e912ea62bb0515deadf39c325112.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Light Hsieh (謝明燈) <Light.Hsieh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240702-filelock-6-10-v1-1-96e766aadc98@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c index 7d0918b8fe5d6..c23bcfe9b0fdd 100644 --- a/fs/locks.c +++ b/fs/locks.c @@ -1298,9 +1298,9 @@ static int posix_lock_inode(struct inode *inode, struct file_lock *request, locks_wake_up_blocks(left); } out: + trace_posix_lock_inode(inode, request, error); spin_unlock(&ctx->flc_lock); percpu_up_read(&file_rwsem); - trace_posix_lock_inode(inode, request, error); /* * Free any unused locks. */