[PATCH] fuse: fix uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate()
From: Luis Henriques
Date: Mon Feb 16 2026 - 09:49:38 EST
fuse_dentry_revalidate() may be called with a dentry that didn't had
->d_time initialised. The issue was found with KMSAN, where lookup_open()
calls __d_alloc(), followed by d_revalidate(), as shown below:
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BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394
fuse_dentry_revalidate+0x150/0x13d0 fs/fuse/dir.c:394
d_revalidate fs/namei.c:1030 [inline]
lookup_open fs/namei.c:4405 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline]
path_openat+0x1614/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827
do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859
[...]
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4466 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x382/0x1280 mm/slub.c:4807
__d_alloc+0x55/0xa00 fs/dcache.c:1740
d_alloc_parallel+0x99/0x2740 fs/dcache.c:2604
lookup_open fs/namei.c:4398 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4583 [inline]
path_openat+0x135f/0x64c0 fs/namei.c:4827
do_file_open+0x2aa/0x680 fs/namei.c:4859
[...]
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Reported-by: syzbot+fdebb2dc960aa56c600a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69917e0d.050a0220.340abe.02e2.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 2396356a945b ("fuse: add more control over cache invalidation behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index f25ee47822ad..66f0113ddfaf 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -481,6 +481,11 @@ static int fuse_dentry_init(struct dentry *dentry)
fd->dentry = dentry;
RB_CLEAR_NODE(&fd->node);
dentry->d_fsdata = fd;
+ /*
+ * Initialising d_time (epoch) to '0' ensures the dentry is invalid
+ * if compared to fc->epoch, which is initialized to '1'.
+ */
+ dentry->d_time = 0;
return 0;
}