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[4/7] fat: fix uninit-memory access for partial initialized inode

Message ID 20200306062836.JsWi6MsBE%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [1/7] mm, numa: fix bad pmd by atomically check for pmd_trans_huge when marking page tables prot_numa | expand

Commit Message

Andrew Morton March 6, 2020, 6:28 a.m. UTC
From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: fat: fix uninit-memory access for partial initialized inode

When get an error in the middle of reading an inode, some fields in the
inode might be still not initialized.  And then the evict_inode path may
access those fields via iput().

To fix, this makes sure that inode fields are initialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/871rqnreqx.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp
Reported-by: syzbot+9d82b8de2992579da5d0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/fat/inode.c |   19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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--- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-fix-uninit-memory-access-for-partial-initialized-inode
+++ a/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -750,6 +750,13 @@  static struct inode *fat_alloc_inode(str
 		return NULL;
 
 	init_rwsem(&ei->truncate_lock);
+	/* Zeroing to allow iput() even if partial initialized inode. */
+	ei->mmu_private = 0;
+	ei->i_start = 0;
+	ei->i_logstart = 0;
+	ei->i_attrs = 0;
+	ei->i_pos = 0;
+
 	return &ei->vfs_inode;
 }
 
@@ -1374,16 +1381,6 @@  out:
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void fat_dummy_inode_init(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	/* Initialize this dummy inode to work as no-op. */
-	MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private = 0;
-	MSDOS_I(inode)->i_start = 0;
-	MSDOS_I(inode)->i_logstart = 0;
-	MSDOS_I(inode)->i_attrs = 0;
-	MSDOS_I(inode)->i_pos = 0;
-}
-
 static int fat_read_root(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb);
@@ -1844,13 +1841,11 @@  int fat_fill_super(struct super_block *s
 	fat_inode = new_inode(sb);
 	if (!fat_inode)
 		goto out_fail;
-	fat_dummy_inode_init(fat_inode);
 	sbi->fat_inode = fat_inode;
 
 	fsinfo_inode = new_inode(sb);
 	if (!fsinfo_inode)
 		goto out_fail;
-	fat_dummy_inode_init(fsinfo_inode);
 	fsinfo_inode->i_ino = MSDOS_FSINFO_INO;
 	sbi->fsinfo_inode = fsinfo_inode;
 	insert_inode_hash(fsinfo_inode);