[PATCH] afs: Fix NULL deref in afs_dynroot_depopulate()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Aug 21 05:15:12 EDT 2020


If an error occurs during the construction of an afs superblock, it's
possible that an error occurs after a superblock is created, but before
we've created the root dentry.  If the superblock has a dynamic root
(ie. what's normally mounted on /afs), the afs_kill_super() will call
afs_dynroot_depopulate() to unpin any created dentries - but this will oops
if the root hasn't been created yet.

Fix this by skipping that bit of code if there is no root dentry.

This leads to an oops looking like:

	general protection fault, ...
	KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000068-0x000000000000006f]
	...
	RIP: 0010:afs_dynroot_depopulate+0x25f/0x529 fs/afs/dynroot.c:385
	...
	Call Trace:
	 afs_kill_super+0x13b/0x180 fs/afs/super.c:535
	 deactivate_locked_super+0x94/0x160 fs/super.c:335
	 afs_get_tree+0x1124/0x1460 fs/afs/super.c:598
	 vfs_get_tree+0x89/0x2f0 fs/super.c:1547
	 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:2875 [inline]
	 path_mount+0x1387/0x2070 fs/namespace.c:3192
	 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3205 [inline]
	 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3413 [inline]
	 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3390 [inline]
	 __x64_sys_mount+0x27f/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3390
	 do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
	 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

which is oopsing on this line:

	inode_lock(root->d_inode);

presumably because sb->s_root was NULL.

Fixes: 0da0b7fd73e4 ("afs: Display manually added cells in dynamic root mount")
Reported-by: syzbot+c1eff8205244ae7e11a6 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---

 fs/afs/dynroot.c |   20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dynroot.c b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
index b79879aacc02..7b784af604fd 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dynroot.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dynroot.c
@@ -382,15 +382,17 @@ void afs_dynroot_depopulate(struct super_block *sb)
 		net->dynroot_sb = NULL;
 	mutex_unlock(&net->proc_cells_lock);
 
-	inode_lock(root->d_inode);
-
-	/* Remove all the pins for dirs created for manually added cells */
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(subdir, tmp, &root->d_subdirs, d_child) {
-		if (subdir->d_fsdata) {
-			subdir->d_fsdata = NULL;
-			dput(subdir);
+	if (root) {
+		inode_lock(root->d_inode);
+
+		/* Remove all the pins for dirs created for manually added cells */
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(subdir, tmp, &root->d_subdirs, d_child) {
+			if (subdir->d_fsdata) {
+				subdir->d_fsdata = NULL;
+				dput(subdir);
+			}
 		}
-	}
 
-	inode_unlock(root->d_inode);
+		inode_unlock(root->d_inode);
+	}
 }





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