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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-10-31 14:15:23 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-11-21 11:19:13 +0300
commitdee4ce11c576cc3b72b42581b231190639e9765c (patch)
tree8742dcbd4ff5de95896a3b82f8690946d5529b6f /fs/overlayfs
parent72f6852d9baaffdb315e8389e2c2b184c214e495 (diff)
downloadlinux-dee4ce11c576cc3b72b42581b231190639e9765c.tar.xz
ovl: check whiteout in ovl_create_over_whiteout()
commit 5e1275808630ea3b2c97c776f40e475017535f72 upstream. Kaixuxia repors that it's possible to crash overlayfs by removing the whiteout on the upper layer before creating a directory over it. This is a reproducer: mkdir lower upper work merge touch lower/file mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge rm merge/file ls -al merge/file rm upper/file ls -al merge/ mkdir merge/file Before commencing with a vfs_rename(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) verify that the lookup of "upper" is positive and is a whiteout, and return ESTALE otherwise. Reported by: kaixuxia <xiakaixu1987@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: e9be9d5e76e3 ("overlay filesystem") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index e1a55ecb7aba..3bbde0a9f48f 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -463,6 +463,10 @@ static int ovl_create_over_whiteout(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
if (IS_ERR(upper))
goto out_unlock;
+ err = -ESTALE;
+ if (d_is_negative(upper) || !IS_WHITEOUT(d_inode(upper)))
+ goto out_dput;
+
newdentry = ovl_create_temp(workdir, cattr);
err = PTR_ERR(newdentry);
if (IS_ERR(newdentry))