[PATCH 026/102] sysfs: handle failure path correctly for readdir()

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 8 09:49:41 UTC 2013


3.5.7.10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>

commit e5110f411d2ee35bf8d202ccca2e89c633060dca upstream.

In case of 'if (filp->f_pos ==  0 or 1)' of sysfs_readdir(),
the failure from filldir() isn't handled, and the reference counter
of the sysfs_dirent object pointed by filp->private_data will be
released without clearing filp->private_data, so use after free
bug will be triggered later.

This patch returns immeadiately under the situation for fixing the bug,
and it is reasonable to return from readdir() when filldir() fails.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 5a035b5..2ee0864 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -1021,6 +1021,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 		ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, ".", 1, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	if (filp->f_pos == 1) {
 		if (parent_sd->s_parent)
@@ -1029,6 +1031,8 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 			ino = parent_sd->s_ino;
 		if (filldir(dirent, "..", 2, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) == 0)
 			filp->f_pos++;
+		else
+			return 0;
 	}
 	mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
 	for (pos = sysfs_dir_pos(ns, parent_sd, filp->f_pos, pos);
-- 
1.8.1.2





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