[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 080/180] uml: fix hostfs mknod()

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Wed Feb 03 2016 - 18:33:27 EST


3.16.7-ckt24 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 9f2dfda2f2f1c6181c3732c16b85c59ab2d195e0 upstream.

An inverted return value check in hostfs_mknod() caused the function
to return success after handling it as an error (and cleaning up).

It resulted in the following segfault when trying to bind() a named
unix socket:

Pid: 198, comm: a.out Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4
RIP: 0033:[<0000000061077df6>]
RSP: 00000000daae5d60 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000006092a460 RCX: 00000000dfc54208
RDX: 0000000061073ef1 RSI: 0000000000000070 RDI: 00000000e027d600
RBP: 00000000daae5de0 R08: 00000000da980ac0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 00007fb1ae08f72a R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000006092a460 R14: 00000000daaa97c0 R15: 00000000daaa9a88
Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel mode fault at addr 0x40, ip 0x61077df6
CPU: 0 PID: 198 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4 #1
Stack:
e027d620 dfc54208 0000006f da981398
61bee000 0000c1ed daae5de0 0000006e
e027d620 dfcd4208 00000005 6092a460
Call Trace:
[<60dedc67>] SyS_bind+0xf7/0x110
[<600587be>] handle_syscall+0x7e/0x80
[<60066ad7>] userspace+0x3e7/0x4e0
[<6006321f>] ? save_registers+0x1f/0x40
[<6006c88e>] ? arch_prctl+0x1be/0x1f0
[<60054985>] fork_handler+0x85/0x90

Let's also get rid of the "cosmic ray protection" while we're at it.

Fixes: e9193059b1b3 "hostfs: fix races in dentry_name() and inode_name()"
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 456f60e2552e..070e249f7d0f 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -720,15 +720,13 @@ static int hostfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,

init_special_inode(inode, mode, dev);
err = do_mknod(name, mode, MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
- if (!err)
+ if (err)
goto out_free;

err = read_name(inode, name);
__putname(name);
if (err)
goto out_put;
- if (err)
- goto out_put;

d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
return 0;