From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
A malicious user could force the directory pointer to be in an invalid
spot by using seekdir(2). Use the mechanism we already have to notice
if the directory has changed since the last time we called
ext4_readdir() to force a revalidation of the pointer.
Reported-by: syzbot+1236ce66f79263e8a862@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya <harsh@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/dir.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
index c24143ea9c08..99f72558b33a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
@@ -320,13 +320,15 @@ static loff_t ext4_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
int dx_dir = is_dx_dir(inode);
- loff_t htree_max = ext4_get_htree_eof(file);
+ loff_t ret, htree_max = ext4_get_htree_eof(file);
if (likely(dx_dir))
- return generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence,
+ ret = generic_file_llseek_size(file, offset, whence,
htree_max, htree_max);
else
- return ext4_llseek(file, offset, whence);
+ ret = ext4_llseek(file, offset, whence);
+ file->f_version = inode_peek_iversion(inode) - 1;
+ return ret;
}
/*
--
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