ubifs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:40:38 +0000 (01:40 +0000)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 1 Apr 2019 04:31:02 +0000 (00:31 -0400)
free the symlink body after the same RCU delay we have for freeing the
struct inode itself, so that traversal during RCU pathwalk wouldn't step
into freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/ubifs/super.c

index 8dc2818..1262818 100644 (file)
@@ -276,14 +276,12 @@ static void ubifs_i_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
        struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
        struct ubifs_inode *ui = ubifs_inode(inode);
+       kfree(ui->data);
        kmem_cache_free(ubifs_inode_slab, ui);
 }
 
 static void ubifs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
-       struct ubifs_inode *ui = ubifs_inode(inode);
-
-       kfree(ui->data);
        call_rcu(&inode->i_rcu, ubifs_i_callback);
 }