v9fs may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry
can lead to a crash. In this case it's a NULL pointer dereference in
p9_fid_create().
Fix by replacing direct access of file->f_path.dentry with the
file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object.
Reported-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
v9fs_proto_dotu(v9ses));
fid = file->private_data;
if (!fid) {
- fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file->f_path.dentry);
+ fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file_dentry(file));
if (IS_ERR(fid))
return PTR_ERR(fid);
* because we want write after unlink usecase
* to work.
*/
- fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file->f_path.dentry);
+ fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(file));
if (IS_ERR(fid)) {
err = PTR_ERR(fid);
mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex);
* because we want write after unlink usecase
* to work.
*/
- fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(filp->f_path.dentry);
+ fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(filp));
if (IS_ERR(fid)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(fid);
mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex);