sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek

commit 991f76f837bf22c5bb07261cfd86525a0a96650c upstream.

While readdir() is running, lseek() may set filp->f_pos as zero,
then may leave filp->private_data pointing to one sysfs_dirent
object without holding its reference counter, so the sysfs_dirent
object may be used after free in next readdir().

This patch holds inode->i_mutex to avoid the problem since
the lock is always held in readdir path.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: open-code file_inode() which we don't have]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index fabbb81..309d21a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -1023,10 +1023,21 @@ static int sysfs_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
        return 0;
 }
 
+static loff_t sysfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+       loff_t ret;
+
+       mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+       ret = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, whence);
+       mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+       return ret;
+}
 
 const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations = {
        .read           = generic_read_dir,
        .readdir        = sysfs_readdir,
        .release        = sysfs_dir_release,
-       .llseek         = generic_file_llseek,
+       .llseek         = sysfs_dir_llseek,
 };