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SubjectRe: Oops in audit_copy_inode
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for the report.

Here's a patch. I haven't tested it but I'm pretty confident that it
fixes the bug.

Thanks,
Miklos


Subject: vfs: fix audit_inode on negative dentry
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Peter Moody reported an oops in audit_copy_inode() and bisected it to commit
7157486541 (vfs: do_last(): common slow lookup).

The problem is that audit_inode() in do_last() is called with a negative dentry.

Previously the non-O_CREAT case didn't call audit_inode() here, but now both
O_CREAT and non-O_CREAT opens are handled by the same code.

I really have no idea why this audit_inode() is needed here at all but am afaid
to remove this for fear of breaking audit somehow. So just fix this case by
checking for a negative dentry.

Reported-by: Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/namei.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2012-08-01 17:47:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2012-08-01 17:49:26.000000000 +0200
@@ -2607,10 +2607,12 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd,
goto finish_open_created;
}

- /*
- * It already exists.
- */
- audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry);
+ if (path->dentry->d_inode) {
+ /*
+ * It already exists.
+ */
+ audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry);
+ }

/*
* If atomic_open() acquired write access it is dropped now due to



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