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    eCryptfs: Prevent lower dentry from going negative during unlink · 9c2d2056
    Tyler Hicks authored
    When calling vfs_unlink() on the lower dentry, d_delete() turns the
    dentry into a negative dentry when the d_count is 1.  This eventually
    caused a NULL pointer deref when a read() or write() was done and the
    negative dentry's d_inode was dereferenced in
    ecryptfs_read_update_atime() or ecryptfs_getxattr().
    
    Placing mutt's tmpdir in an eCryptfs mount is what initially triggered
    the oops and I was able to reproduce it with the following sequence:
    
    open("/tmp/upper/foo", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW, 0600) = 3
    link("/tmp/upper/foo", "/tmp/upper/bar") = 0
    unlink("/tmp/upper/foo")                = 0
    open("/tmp/upper/bar", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NOFOLLOW, 0600) = 4
    unlink("/tmp/upper/bar")                = 0
    write(4, "eCryptfs test\n"..., 14 <unfinished ...>
    +++ killed by SIGKILL +++
    
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/387073Reported-by: default avatarLoïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
    Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
    Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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