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commit c42dd069be8dfc9b2239a5c89e73bbd08ab35de0 upstream.
When configfs_lookup() is executing list_for_each_entry(),
it is possible that configfs_dir_lseek() is calling list_del().
Some unfortunate interleavings of them can cause a kernel NULL
pointer dereference error
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//configfs_dir_lseek() //configfs_lookup()
list_del(&cursor->s_sibling);
list_for_each_entry(sd, ...)
Fix this by grabbing configfs_dirent_lock in configfs_lookup()
while iterating ->s_children.
Signed-off-by: Sishuai Gong <sishuai@purdue.edu>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Zeng <zengyhkyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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