From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759678Ab3DBXEP (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 19:04:15 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33927 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758051Ab3DBWub (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 18:50:31 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones , Sasha Levin , Ming Lei Subject: [ 08/56] sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:49:35 -0700 Message-Id: <20130402224712.832265054@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.rc1.5.g7e0651a In-Reply-To: <20130402224711.840825715@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130402224711.840825715@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-5.1.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ming Lei commit 991f76f837bf22c5bb07261cfd86525a0a96650c upstream. While readdir() is running, lseek() may set filp->f_pos as zero, then may leave filp->private_data pointing to one sysfs_dirent object without holding its reference counter, so the sysfs_dirent object may be used after free in next readdir(). This patch holds inode->i_mutex to avoid the problem since the lock is always held in readdir path. Reported-by: Dave Jones Tested-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -955,10 +955,21 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * f return 0; } +static loff_t sysfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) +{ + struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; + loff_t ret; + + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); + ret = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, whence); + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + + return ret; +} const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations = { .read = generic_read_dir, .readdir = sysfs_readdir, .release = sysfs_dir_release, - .llseek = generic_file_llseek, + .llseek = sysfs_dir_llseek, };