This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: ensure that cifs_get_root() only traverses directories to the 3.8-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: cifs-ensure-that-cifs_get_root-only-traverses-directories.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ce2ac52105aa663056dfc17966ebed1bf93e6e64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:11:01 -0500 Subject: cifs: ensure that cifs_get_root() only traverses directories From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ce2ac52105aa663056dfc17966ebed1bf93e6e64 upstream. Kjell Braden reported this oops: [ 833.211970] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 833.212816] IP: [< (null)>] (null) [ 833.213280] PGD 1b9b2067 PUD e9f7067 PMD 0 [ 833.213874] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP [ 833.214344] CPU 0 [ 833.214458] Modules linked in: des_generic md4 nls_utf8 cifs vboxvideo drm snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq bnep rfcomm snd_timer bluetooth snd_seq_device ppdev snd vboxguest parport_pc joydev mac_hid soundcore snd_page_alloc psmouse i2c_piix4 serio_raw lp parport usbhid hid e1000 [ 833.215629] [ 833.215629] Pid: 1752, comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 3.0.0-rc7-bisectcifs-fec11dd9a0+ #18 innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox [ 833.215629] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) [ 833.215629] RSP: 0018:ffff8800119c9c50 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 833.215629] RAX: ffffffffa02186c0 RBX: ffff88000c427780 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 833.215629] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88000c427780 RDI: ffff88000c4362e8 [ 833.215629] RBP: ffff8800119c9c88 R08: ffff88001fc15e30 R09: 00000000d69515c7 [ 833.215629] R10: ffffffffa0201972 R11: ffff88000e8f6a28 R12: ffff88000c4362e8 [ 833.215629] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88001181aaa6 [ 833.215629] FS: 00007f2986171700(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 833.215629] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 833.215629] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001b982000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 833.215629] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 833.215629] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 833.215629] Process mount.cifs (pid: 1752, threadinfo ffff8800119c8000, task ffff88001c1c16f0) [ 833.215629] Stack: [ 833.215629] ffffffff8116a9b5 ffff8800119c9c88 ffffffff81178075 0000000000000286 [ 833.215629] 0000000000000000 ffff88000c4276c0 ffff8800119c9ce8 ffff8800119c9cc8 [ 833.215629] ffffffff8116b06e ffff88001bc6fc00 ffff88000c4276c0 ffff88000c4276c0 [ 833.215629] Call Trace: [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8116a9b5>] ? d_alloc_and_lookup+0x45/0x90 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff81178075>] ? d_lookup+0x35/0x60 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8116b06e>] __lookup_hash.part.14+0x9e/0xc0 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8116b1d6>] lookup_one_len+0x146/0x1e0 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff815e4f7e>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffffa01eef0d>] cifs_do_mount+0x26d/0x500 [cifs] [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff81163bd3>] mount_fs+0x43/0x1b0 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8117d41a>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6a/0xd0 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8117e584>] do_kern_mount+0x54/0x110 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8117fdc2>] do_mount+0x262/0x840 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff81108a0e>] ? __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8117f9ca>] ? copy_mount_options+0x3a/0x180 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff8118075d>] sys_mount+0x8d/0xe0 [ 833.215629] [<ffffffff815ece82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 833.215629] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 833.215629] RIP [< (null)>] (null) [ 833.215629] RSP <ffff8800119c9c50> [ 833.215629] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 833.238525] ---[ end trace ec00758b8d44f529 ]--- When walking down the path on the server, it's possible to hit a symlink. The path walking code assumes that the caller will handle that situation properly, but cifs_get_root() isn't set up for it. This patch prevents the oops by simply returning an error. A better solution would be to try and chase the symlinks here, but that's fairly complicated to handle. Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53221 Reported-and-tested-by: Kjell Braden <afflux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -558,6 +558,11 @@ cifs_get_root(struct smb_vol *vol, struc dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); break; } + if (!S_ISDIR(dir->i_mode)) { + dput(dentry); + dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR); + break; + } /* skip separators */ while (*s == sep) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/nfs-don-t-allow-nfs-silly-renamed-files-to-be-deleted-no-signal.patch queue-3.8/cifs-ensure-that-cifs_get_root-only-traverses-directories.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html