Commit fc0d59b2 authored by Sahitya Tummala's avatar Sahitya Tummala Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: fix use-after-free in dx_release()

commit 08fc98a4 upstream.

The buffer_head (frames[0].bh) and it's corresping page can be
potentially free'd once brelse() is done inside the for loop
but before the for loop exits in dx_release(). It can be free'd
in another context, when the page cache is flushed via
drop_caches_sysctl_handler(). This results into below data abort
when accessing info->indirect_levels in dx_release().

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc17ac3e01e
Call trace:
 dx_release+0x70/0x90
 ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x2d4/0x300
 ext4_readdir+0x244/0x6f8
 iterate_dir+0xbc/0x160
 SyS_getdents64+0x94/0x174
Signed-off-by: default avatarSahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0dc4c612
......@@ -871,12 +871,15 @@ static void dx_release(struct dx_frame *frames)
{
struct dx_root_info *info;
int i;
unsigned int indirect_levels;
if (frames[0].bh == NULL)
return;
info = &((struct dx_root *)frames[0].bh->b_data)->info;
for (i = 0; i <= info->indirect_levels; i++) {
/* save local copy, "info" may be freed after brelse() */
indirect_levels = info->indirect_levels;
for (i = 0; i <= indirect_levels; i++) {
if (frames[i].bh == NULL)
break;
brelse(frames[i].bh);
......
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