This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bdev: fix NULL pointer dereference
to the 4.7-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:
bdev-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e9e5e3fae8da7e237049e00e0bfc9e32fd808fe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:47:43 +0200
Subject: bdev: fix NULL pointer dereference
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e9e5e3fae8da7e237049e00e0bfc9e32fd808fe8 upstream.
I got this:
kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
Dumping ftrace buffer:
(ftrace buffer empty)
CPU: 0 PID: 5505 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.8.0-rc2+ #161
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.9.3-0-ge2fc41e-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
task: ffff880113415940 task.stack: ffff880118350000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8172cb32>] [<ffffffff8172cb32>] bd_mount+0x52/0xa0
RSP: 0018:ffff880118357ca0 EFLAGS: 00010207
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffffffffff RCX: ffffc90000bb6000
RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: ffffffff846d6b20 RDI: 00000000000000c7
RBP: ffff880118357cb0 R08: ffff880115967c68 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8801188211e8
R13: ffffffff847baa20 R14: ffff8801139cb000 R15: 0000000000000080
FS: 00007fa3ff6c0700(0000) GS:ffff88011aa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fc1d8cc7e78 CR3: 0000000109f20000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 000000000000001e DR1: 000000000000001e DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Stack:
ffff880112cfd6c0 ffff8801188211e8 ffff880118357cf0 ffffffff8167f207
ffffffff816d7a1e ffff880112a413c0 ffffffff847baa20 ffff8801188211e8
0000000000000080 ffff880112cfd6c0 ffff880118357d38 ffffffff816dce0a
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8167f207>] mount_fs+0x97/0x2e0
[<ffffffff816d7a1e>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0x55e/0x760
[<ffffffff816dce0a>] vfs_kern_mount+0x7a/0x300
[<ffffffff83c3247c>] ? _raw_read_unlock+0x2c/0x50
[<ffffffff816dfc87>] do_mount+0x3d7/0x2730
[<ffffffff81235fd4>] ? trace_do_page_fault+0x1f4/0x3a0
[<ffffffff816df8b0>] ? copy_mount_string+0x40/0x40
[<ffffffff8161ea81>] ? memset+0x31/0x40
[<ffffffff816df73e>] ? copy_mount_options+0x1ee/0x320
[<ffffffff816e2a02>] SyS_mount+0xb2/0x120
[<ffffffff816e2950>] ? copy_mnt_ns+0x970/0x970
[<ffffffff81005524>] do_syscall_64+0x1c4/0x4e0
[<ffffffff83c3282a>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Code: 83 e8 63 1b fc ff 48 85 c0 48 89 c3 74 4c e8 56 35 d1 ff 48 8d bb c8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 75 36 4c 8b a3 c8 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc
RIP [<ffffffff8172cb32>] bd_mount+0x52/0xa0
RSP <ffff880118357ca0>
---[ end trace 13690ad962168b98 ]---
mount_pseudo() returns ERR_PTR(), not NULL, on error.
Fixes: 3684aa7099e0 ("block-dev: enable writeback cgroup support")
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static struct dentry *bd_mount(struct fi
{
struct dentry *dent;
dent = mount_pseudo(fs_type, "bdev:", &bdev_sops, NULL, BDEVFS_MAGIC);
- if (dent)
+ if (!IS_ERR(dent))
dent->d_sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_CGROUPWB;
return dent;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/bdev-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
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