• Sahitya Tummala's avatar
    ext4: fix use-after-free in dx_release() · 08fc98a4
    Sahitya Tummala authored
    The buffer_head (frames[0].bh) and it's corresping page can be
    potentially free'd once brelse() is done inside the for loop
    but before the for loop exits in dx_release(). It can be free'd
    in another context, when the page cache is flushed via
    drop_caches_sysctl_handler(). This results into below data abort
    when accessing info->indirect_levels in dx_release().
    
    Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc17ac3e01e
    Call trace:
     dx_release+0x70/0x90
     ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x2d4/0x300
     ext4_readdir+0x244/0x6f8
     iterate_dir+0xbc/0x160
     SyS_getdents64+0x94/0x174
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    08fc98a4
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