inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks
commit e0873344 upstream. There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code. A task can find and remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references. This can result in a use after free/double free situation. Task A Task B ------------ ----------- inotify_new_watch() allocate a mark (refcnt == 1) add it to the idr inotify_rm_watch() inotify_remove_from_idr() fsnotify_put_mark() refcnt hits 0, free take reference because we are on idr [at this point it is a use after free] [time goes on] refcnt may hit 0 again, double free The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the idr. Signed-off-by:Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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