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authorPan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>2018-11-25 08:58:02 +0800
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2019-02-11 17:54:14 +0000
commit2ada5a08b091d1d825c41d61decb6e6db3de3d54 (patch)
tree9415cd08608e6958a9c86d1405df675be93c9aba /fs
parent8dc4dd2c7b7284a172fc1dd5880fca5d0decbbf2 (diff)
ext2: fix potential use after free
commit ecebf55d27a11538ea84aee0be643dd953f830d5 upstream. The function ext2_xattr_set calls brelse(bh) to drop the reference count of bh. After that, bh may be freed. However, following brelse(bh), it reads bh->b_data via macro HDR(bh). This may result in a use-after-free bug. This patch moves brelse(bh) after reading field. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext2/xattr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index 91426141c33a..d5d6ec134d5c 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -606,9 +606,9 @@ skip_replace:
}
cleanup:
- brelse(bh);
if (!(bh && header == HDR(bh)))
kfree(header);
+ brelse(bh);
up_write(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
return error;