[PATCH 1/1] inotify: Fix fsnotify_mark refcount leak in inotify_update_existing_watch()

Tyler Hicks tyhicks at canonical.com
Wed Mar 27 18:57:21 UTC 2019


From: ZhangXiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5 at huawei.com>

Commit 4d97f7d53da7dc83 ("inotify: Add flag IN_MASK_CREATE for
inotify_add_watch()") forgot to call fsnotify_put_mark() with
IN_MASK_CREATE after fsnotify_find_mark()

Fixes: 4d97f7d53da7dc83 ("inotify: Add flag IN_MASK_CREATE for inotify_add_watch()")
Signed-off-by: ZhangXiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5 at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

CVE-2019-9857

(cherry picked from commit 62c9d2674b31d4c8a674bee86b7edc6da2803aea)
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
---
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 798f1253141a..3b7b8e95c98a 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -519,8 +519,10 @@ static int inotify_update_existing_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	fsn_mark = fsnotify_find_mark(&inode->i_fsnotify_marks, group);
 	if (!fsn_mark)
 		return -ENOENT;
-	else if (create)
-		return -EEXIST;
+	else if (create) {
+		ret = -EEXIST;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	i_mark = container_of(fsn_mark, struct inotify_inode_mark, fsn_mark);
 
@@ -548,6 +550,7 @@ static int inotify_update_existing_watch(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 	/* return the wd */
 	ret = i_mark->wd;
 
+out:
 	/* match the get from fsnotify_find_mark() */
 	fsnotify_put_mark(fsn_mark);
 
-- 
2.7.4




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