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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-11-04 12:55:34 +0300
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-11-04 12:55:34 +0300
commit1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c (patch)
tree529a98c4445e34dc1f806c760b2668f0b46ec27c /fs/overlayfs/dir.c
parent9a254403760041528bc8f69fe2f5e1ef86950991 (diff)
downloadlinux-1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c.tar.xz
ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()
Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovl_workdir_create() -> ovl_create_real(): if (!err && WARN_ON(!newdentry->d_inode)) { The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without instantiating the new dentry. Weird filesystems such as this will be rejected by overlayfs at a later stage during setup, but to prevent such a warning, call ovl_mkdir_real() directly from ovl_workdir_create() and reject this case early. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+75eab84fd0af9e8bf66b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/dir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 93c7c267de93..f18490813170 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -137,8 +137,7 @@ kill_whiteout:
goto out;
}
-static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry,
- umode_t mode)
+int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry, umode_t mode)
{
int err;
struct dentry *d, *dentry = *newdentry;