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commit 020010fbfa202aa528a52743eba4ab0da3400a4e upstream There exists a race between holding a reference of an eventfs_inode dentry and the freeing of the eventfs_inode. If user space has a dentry held long enough, it may still be able to access the dentry's eventfs_inode after it has been freed. To prevent this, have he eventfs_inode freed via the last dput() (or via RCU if the eventfs_inode does not have a dentry). This means reintroducing the eventfs_inode del_list field at a temporary place to put the eventfs_inode. It needs to mark it as freed (via the list) but also must invalidate the dentry immediately as the return from eventfs_remove_dir() expects that they are. But the dentry invalidation must not be called under the eventfs_mutex, so it must be done after the eventfs_inode is marked as free (put on a deletion list). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231101172650.123479767@goodmis.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Fixes: 5bdcd5f5331a2 ("eventfs: Implement removal of meta data from eventfs") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.