On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 01:10:14AM +0800, Zach Wade wrote: > when unload pstore_blk, we will unlink the pstore file and > set pos->dentry to NULL, but simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry) > may free inode of pos->dentry and free pos by free_pstore_private, > this may trigger uaf. kasan report: Thanks for this! I need to double check what happening here a bit more closely, as maybe some ordering changed after a43e0fc5e913 ("pstore: inode: Only d_invalidate() is needed") > @@ -316,9 +316,10 @@ int pstore_put_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi) > list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, tmp, &records_list, list) { > if (pos->record->psi == psi) { > list_del_init(&pos->list); > - d_invalidate(pos->dentry); > - simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry); > + unlink_dentry = pos->dentry; > pos->dentry = NULL; > + d_invalidate(unlink_dentry); > + simple_unlink(d_inode(root), unlink_dentry); But on the face of it, this does solve the UAF. I'll double-check that this isn't a result of the mentioned commit. -Kees -- Kees Cook