ovl: fix possible double unlink
authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:23:55 +0000 (11:23 +0200)
committerAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:16:49 +0000 (13:16 +0200)
commite8bd877fb76bb9f35253e8f41ce0c772269934dd
treef930f4074fb3b77e717b621bf0925cb1b5e7aab0
parent5f1c8965e748c150d580a2ea8fbee1bd80d07a24
ovl: fix possible double unlink

commit 9d23967b18c6 ("ovl: simplify an error path in
ovl_copy_up_workdir()") introduced the helper ovl_cleanup_unlocked(),
which is later used in several following patches to re-acquire the parent
inode lock and unlink a dentry that was earlier found using lookup.
This helper was eventually renamed to ovl_cleanup().

The helper ovl_parent_lock() is used to re-acquire the parent inode lock.
After acquiring the parent inode lock, the helper verifies that the
dentry has not since been moved to another parent, but it failed to
verify that the dentry wasn't unlinked from the parent.

This means that now every call to ovl_cleanup() could potentially
race with another thread, unlinking the dentry to be cleaned up
underneath overlayfs and trigger a vfs assertion.

Reported-by: syzbot+ec9fab8b7f0386b98a17@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+ec9fab8b7f0386b98a17@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 9d23967b18c6 ("ovl: simplify an error path in ovl_copy_up_workdir()")
Suggested-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
fs/overlayfs/util.c