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

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Wed Mar 27 18:59:51 UTC 2019


On 27/03/2019 18:57, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> 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);
>  
> 
Clean cherry pick. Looks OK to me.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>



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