On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:12:34PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>
> 
> Since ->d_compare() and ->d_hash() can be called in RCU-walk mode,
> ->d_parent and ->d_inode can be concurrently modified, and in
> particular, ->d_inode may be changed to NULL.  For ext4_d_hash() this
> resulted in a reproducible NULL dereference if a lookup is done in a
> directory being deleted, e.g. with:
> 
>       int main()
>       {
>               if (fork()) {
>                       for (;;) {
>                               mkdir("subdir", 0700);
>                               rmdir("subdir");
>                       }
>               } else {
>                       for (;;)
>                               access("subdir/file", 0);
>               }
>       }
> 
> ... or by running the 't_encrypted_d_revalidate' program from xfstests.
> Both repros work in any directory on a filesystem with the encoding
> feature, even if the directory doesn't actually have the casefold flag.
> 
> I couldn't reproduce a crash in ext4_d_compare(), but it appears that a
> similar crash is possible there.
> 
> Fix these bugs by reading ->d_parent and ->d_inode using READ_ONCE() and
> falling back to the case sensitive behavior if the inode is NULL.
> 
> Reported-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Fixes: b886ee3e778e ("ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups")
> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v5.2+
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com>

Thanks, applied.

                                                - Ted


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