Commit 413ba910 authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein

ovl: fix dentry reference leak after changes to underlying layers

syzbot excercised the forbidden practice of moving the workdir under
lowerdir while overlayfs is mounted and tripped a dentry reference leak.

Fixes: c63e56a4 ("ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+8608bb4553edb8c78f41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
parent 98b1cc82
......@@ -753,15 +753,16 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
path.dentry = temp;
err = ovl_copy_up_data(c, &path);
/*
* We cannot hold lock_rename() throughout this helper, because or
* We cannot hold lock_rename() throughout this helper, because of
* lock ordering with sb_writers, which shouldn't be held when calling
* ovl_copy_up_data(), so lock workdir and destdir and make sure that
* temp wasn't moved before copy up completion or cleanup.
* If temp was moved, abort without the cleanup.
*/
ovl_start_write(c->dentry);
if (lock_rename(c->workdir, c->destdir) != NULL ||
temp->d_parent != c->workdir) {
/* temp or workdir moved underneath us? abort without cleanup */
dput(temp);
err = -EIO;
goto unlock;
} else if (err) {
......
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