This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS to the 4.4-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: nsfs-mark-dentry-with-dcache_rcuaccess.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:11:00 -0700 Subject: nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> commit 073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 upstream. Andrey reported a use-after-free in __ns_get_path(): spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline] lockref_get_not_dead+0x19/0x80 lib/lockref.c:179 __ns_get_path+0x197/0x860 fs/nsfs.c:66 open_related_ns+0xda/0x200 fs/nsfs.c:143 sock_ioctl+0x39d/0x440 net/socket.c:1001 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1bf/0x1780 fs/ioctl.c:685 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline] SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691 We are under rcu read lock protection at that point: rcu_read_lock(); d = atomic_long_read(&ns->stashed); if (!d) goto slow; dentry = (struct dentry *)d; if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref)) goto slow; rcu_read_unlock(); but don't use a proper RCU API on the free path, therefore a parallel __d_free() could free it at the same time. We need to mark the stashed dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS so that __d_free() will be called after all readers leave RCU. Fixes: e149ed2b805f ("take the targets of /proc/*/ns/* symlinks to separate fs") Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nsfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/nsfs.c +++ b/fs/nsfs.c @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ slow: return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS; dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)ns_ops; d = atomic_long_cmpxchg(&ns->stashed, 0, (unsigned long)dentry); if (d) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nsfs-mark-dentry-with-dcache_rcuaccess.patch