Merge tag 'make-attr-fork-permanent-5.20_2022-07-14' of...
Merge tag 'make-attr-fork-permanent-5.20_2022-07-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux into xfs-5.20-mergeB xfs: make attr forks permanent This series fixes a use-after-free bug that syzbot uncovered. The UAF itself is a result of a race condition between getxattr and removexattr because callers to getxattr do not necessarily take any sort of locks before calling into the filesystem. Although the race condition itself can be fixed through clever use of a memory barrier, further consideration of the use cases of extended attributes shows that most files always have at least one attribute, so we might as well make them permanent. v2: Minor tweaks suggested by Dave, and convert some more macros to helper functions. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> * tag 'make-attr-fork-permanent-5.20_2022-07-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux: xfs: replace inode fork size macros with functions xfs: replace XFS_IFORK_Q with a proper predicate function xfs: use XFS_IFORK_Q to determine the presence of an xattr fork xfs: make inode attribute forks a permanent part of struct xfs_inode xfs: convert XFS_IFORK_PTR to a static inline helper
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