ovl: fix missing negative dentry check in ovl_rename()
authorZheng Liang <zhengliang6@huawei.com>
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 01:16:27 +0000 (09:16 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:04:23 +0000 (10:04 +0200)
commit9763ffd4da217adfcbdcd519e9f434dfa3952fc3
tree28c370732ccecb6b2c61360271700c20e84b3abe
parent1500f0c83670294b786e0cbf62c15da23fae1a26
ovl: fix missing negative dentry check in ovl_rename()

commit a295aef603e109a47af355477326bd41151765b6 upstream.

The following reproducer

  mkdir lower upper work merge
  touch lower/old
  touch lower/new
  mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge
  rm merge/new
  mv merge/old merge/new & unlink upper/new

may result in this race:

PROCESS A:
  rename("merge/old", "merge/new");
  overwrite=true,ovl_lower_positive(old)=true,
  ovl_dentry_is_whiteout(new)=true -> flags |= RENAME_EXCHANGE

PROCESS B:
  unlink("upper/new");

PROCESS A:
  lookup newdentry in new_upperdir
  call vfs_rename() with negative newdentry and RENAME_EXCHANGE

Fix by adding the missing check for negative newdentry.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liang <zhengliang6@huawei.com>
Fixes: e9be9d5e76e3 ("overlay filesystem")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/overlayfs/dir.c