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9p: use file_dentry()

Message ID 1467190463-9906-1-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Miklos Szeredi June 29, 2016, 8:54 a.m. UTC 
v9fs may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry
can lead to a crash.  In this case it's a NULL pointer dereference in
p9_fid_create().

Fix by replacing direct access of file->f_path.dentry with the
file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object.

Reported-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <alessioigorbogani@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
index b84c291ba1eb..d7b78d531e63 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@  int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 					v9fs_proto_dotu(v9ses));
 	fid = file->private_data;
 	if (!fid) {
-		fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file->f_path.dentry);
+		fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file_dentry(file));
 		if (IS_ERR(fid))
 			return PTR_ERR(fid);
 
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@  int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		 * because we want write after unlink usecase
 		 * to work.
 		 */
-		fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file->f_path.dentry);
+		fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(file));
 		if (IS_ERR(fid)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(fid);
 			mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex);
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@  v9fs_mmap_file_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		 * because we want write after unlink usecase
 		 * to work.
 		 */
-		fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(filp->f_path.dentry);
+		fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(filp));
 		if (IS_ERR(fid)) {
 			retval = PTR_ERR(fid);
 			mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex);