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[PATCH 4.5 107/124] ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open()

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  [PATCH 4.5 107/124] ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-04-18 05:20 +0200

#1381124 — [PATCH 4.5 107/124] ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open()

4.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

commit 9dd78d8c9a7bd4bc341f5864db32d4331b8eae4c upstream.

In f_op->open() lock on parent is not held, so there's no guarantee that
parent dentry won't go away at any time.

Even after this patch there's no guarantee that 'dir' will stay the parent
of 'inode', but at least it won't be freed while being used.

Fixes: ff978b09f973 ("ext4 crypto: move context consistency check to ext4_file_open()")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/file.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/file.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int ext4_file_open(struct inode *
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
 	struct vfsmount *mnt = filp->f_path.mnt;
-	struct inode *dir = filp->f_path.dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
+	struct dentry *dir;
 	struct path path;
 	char buf[64], *cp;
 	int ret;
@@ -379,14 +379,18 @@ static int ext4_file_open(struct inode *
 		if (ext4_encryption_info(inode) == NULL)
 			return -ENOKEY;
 	}
-	if (ext4_encrypted_inode(dir) &&
-	    !ext4_is_child_context_consistent_with_parent(dir, inode)) {
+
+	dir = dget_parent(filp->f_path.dentry);
+	if (ext4_encrypted_inode(d_inode(dir)) &&
+	    !ext4_is_child_context_consistent_with_parent(d_inode(dir), inode)) {
 		ext4_warning(inode->i_sb,
 			     "Inconsistent encryption contexts: %lu/%lu\n",
-			     (unsigned long) dir->i_ino,
+			     (unsigned long) d_inode(dir)->i_ino,
 			     (unsigned long) inode->i_ino);
+		dput(dir);
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
+	dput(dir);
 	/*
 	 * Set up the jbd2_inode if we are opening the inode for
 	 * writing and the journal is present

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