From: Jeff Layton Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:19:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: vfs: don't let do_last pass negative dentry to audit_inode X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3134f37e931d75931bdf6d4eacd82a3fd26eca7c;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git vfs: don't let do_last pass negative dentry to audit_inode I can reliably reproduce the following panic by simply setting an audit rule on a recent 3.5.0+ kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 IP: [] audit_copy_inode+0x10/0x90 PGD 7acd9067 PUD 7b8fb067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#86] SMP Modules linked in: nfs nfs_acl auth_rpcgss fscache lockd sunrpc tpm_bios btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c kvm_amd kvm joydev virtio_net pcspkr i2c_piix4 floppy virtio_balloon microcode virtio_blk cirrus drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] CPU 0 Pid: 1286, comm: abrt-dump-oops Tainted: G D 3.5.0+ #1 Bochs Bochs RIP: 0010:[] [] audit_copy_inode+0x10/0x90 RSP: 0018:ffff88007aebfc38 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003692d860 RCX: 00000000000038c4 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88006baf5d80 RDI: ffff88003692d860 RBP: ffff88007aebfc68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff880036d30f00 R14: ffff88006baf5d80 R15: ffff88003692d800 FS: 00007f7562634740(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000003643d000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process abrt-dump-oops (pid: 1286, threadinfo ffff88007aebe000, task ffff880079614530) Stack: ffff88007aebfdf8 ffff88007aebff28 ffff88007aebfc98 ffffffff81211358 ffff88003692d860 0000000000000000 ffff88007aebfcc8 ffffffff810d4968 ffff88007aebfcc8 ffff8800000038c4 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [] ? ext4_lookup+0xe8/0x160 [] __audit_inode+0x118/0x2d0 [] do_last+0x999/0xe80 [] ? inode_permission+0x18/0x50 [] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x11a/0x130 [] path_openat+0xba/0x420 [] do_filp_open+0x41/0xa0 [] ? alloc_fd+0x4d/0x120 [] do_sys_open+0xed/0x1c0 [] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xcc/0x300 [] sys_open+0x21/0x30 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b RSP CR2: 0000000000000040 The problem is that do_last is passing a negative dentry to audit_inode. The comments on lookup_open note that it can pass back a negative dentry if O_CREAT is not set. This patch fixes the oops, but I'm not clear on whether there's a better approach. Cc: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index a3fb78fd70d2..afa087649ddb 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2608,9 +2608,10 @@ retry_lookup: } /* - * It already exists. + * create/update audit record if it already exists. */ - audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry); + if (path->dentry->d_inode) + audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry); /* * If atomic_open() acquired write access it is dropped now due to