[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 94a5a1802e4f21ec56649088f12018dbe7297b09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chao Yu <chao2.yu at samsung.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:25:42 +0800
Subject: ecryptfs: avoid to access NULL pointer when write metadata in xattr

commit 35425ea2492175fd39f6116481fe98b2b3ddd4ca upstream.

Christopher Head 2014-06-28 05:26:20 UTC described:
"I tried to reproduce this on 3.12.21. Instead, when I do "echo hello > foo"
in an ecryptfs mount with ecryptfs_xattr specified, I get a kernel crash:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8110eb39>] fsstack_copy_attr_all+0x2/0x61
PGD d7840067 PUD b2c3c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: nvidia(PO)
CPU: 3 PID: 3566 Comm: bash Tainted: P           O 3.12.21-gentoo-r1 #2
Hardware name: ASUSTek Computer Inc. G60JX/G60JX, BIOS 206 03/15/2010
task: ffff8801948944c0 ti: ffff8800bad70000 task.ti: ffff8800bad70000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8110eb39>]  [<ffffffff8110eb39>] fsstack_copy_attr_all+0x2/0x61
RSP: 0018:ffff8800bad71c10  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 00000000000181a4 RBX: ffff880198648480 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffff880172010450 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff880198490e40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff880172010450 R11: ffffea0002c51e80 R12: 0000000000002000
R13: 000000000000001a R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880198490e40
FS:  00007ff224caa700(0000) GS:ffff88019fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000bb07f000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
Stack:
ffffffff811826e8 ffff8800a39d8000 0000000000000000 000000000000001a
ffff8800a01d0000 ffff8800a39d8000 ffffffff81185fd5 ffffffff81082c2c
00000001a39d8000 53d0abbc98490e40 0000000000000037 ffff8800a39d8220
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff811826e8>] ? ecryptfs_setxattr+0x40/0x52
[<ffffffff81185fd5>] ? ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x1b3/0x223
[<ffffffff81082c2c>] ? should_resched+0x5/0x23
[<ffffffff8118322b>] ? ecryptfs_initialize_file+0xaf/0xd4
[<ffffffff81183344>] ? ecryptfs_create+0xf4/0x142
[<ffffffff810f8c0d>] ? vfs_create+0x48/0x71
[<ffffffff810f9c86>] ? do_last.isra.68+0x559/0x952
[<ffffffff810f7ce7>] ? link_path_walk+0xbd/0x458
[<ffffffff810fa2a3>] ? path_openat+0x224/0x472
[<ffffffff810fa7bd>] ? do_filp_open+0x2b/0x6f
[<ffffffff81103606>] ? __alloc_fd+0xd6/0xe7
[<ffffffff810ee6ab>] ? do_sys_open+0x65/0xe9
[<ffffffff8157d022>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
RIP  [<ffffffff8110eb39>] fsstack_copy_attr_all+0x2/0x61
RSP <ffff8800bad71c10>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace df9dba5f1ddb8565 ]---"

If we create a file when we mount with ecryptfs_xattr_metadata option, we will
encounter a crash in this path:
->ecryptfs_create
  ->ecryptfs_initialize_file
    ->ecryptfs_write_metadata
      ->ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_xattr
        ->ecryptfs_setxattr
          ->fsstack_copy_attr_all
It's because our dentry->d_inode used in fsstack_copy_attr_all is NULL, and it
will be initialized when ecryptfs_initialize_file finish.

So we should skip copying attr from lower inode when the value of ->d_inode is
invalid.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index c36c448..5d45988 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ ecryptfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 	}

 	rc = vfs_setxattr(lower_dentry, name, value, size, flags);
-	if (!rc)
+	if (!rc && dentry->d_inode)
 		fsstack_copy_attr_all(dentry->d_inode, lower_dentry->d_inode);
 out:
 	return rc;
--
1.9.1