4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d4565649b6d6923369112758212b851adc407f0c upstream. both do_last() and walk_component() risk picking a NULL inode out of dentry about to become positive, *then* checking its flags and seeing that it's not negative anymore and using (already stale by then) value they'd fetched earlier. Usually ends up oopsing soon after that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 3500b12..1047096 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1745,11 +1745,11 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, int flags) if (err < 0) return err; - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* we are already out of RCU mode */ err = -ENOENT; if (d_is_negative(path.dentry)) goto out_path_put; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); } if (flags & WALK_PUT) @@ -3133,12 +3133,12 @@ retry_lookup: return error; BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU); - inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) { path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); return -ENOENT; } + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); finish_lookup: if (nd->depth) put_link(nd); -- 2.7.0 -- 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