summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/fs/overlayfs
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-11-04 10:55:34 +0100
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2021-11-04 10:55:34 +0100
commit1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c (patch)
tree529a98c4445e34dc1f806c760b2668f0b46ec27c /fs/overlayfs
parent9a254403760041528bc8f69fe2f5e1ef86950991 (diff)
downloadlinux-1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c.tar.gz
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')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c3
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c12
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 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;
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 3894f3347955..2cd5741c873b 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ struct ovl_cattr {
 
 #define OVL_CATTR(m) (&(struct ovl_cattr) { .mode = (m) })
 
+int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry, umode_t mode);
 struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
 			       struct ovl_cattr *attr);
 int ovl_cleanup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 178daa5e82c9..265181c110ae 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -787,10 +787,14 @@ retry:
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
-		work = ovl_create_real(dir, work, OVL_CATTR(attr.ia_mode));
-		err = PTR_ERR(work);
-		if (IS_ERR(work))
-			goto out_err;
+		err = ovl_mkdir_real(dir, &work, attr.ia_mode);
+		if (err)
+			goto out_dput;
+
+		/* Weird filesystem returning with hashed negative (kernfs)? */
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		if (d_really_is_negative(work))
+			goto out_dput;
 
 		/*
 		 * Try to remove POSIX ACL xattrs from workdir.  We are good if: