Patch "locks: use file_inode()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

locks: use file_inode()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
locks-use-file_inode.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:56:07 +0200
Subject: locks: use file_inode()

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

commit 6343a2120862f7023006c8091ad95c1f16a32077 upstream.

(Another one for the f_path debacle.)

ltp fcntl33 testcase caused an Oops in selinux_file_send_sigiotask.

The reason is that generic_add_lease() used filp->f_path.dentry->inode while all the others use file_inode(). This makes a difference for files opened on overlayfs since the former will point to the overlay inode the latter to the underlying inode.

So generic_add_lease() added the lease to the overlay inode and generic_delete_lease() removed it from the underlying inode. When the file was released the lease remained on the overlay inode's lock list, resulting in use after free.

---
 fs/locks.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ generic_add_lease(struct file *filp, lon
 {
 	struct file_lock *fl, *my_fl = NULL, *lease;
 	struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry;
-	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
 	struct file_lock_context *ctx;
 	bool is_deleg = (*flp)->fl_flags & FL_DELEG;
 	int error;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/locks-use-file_inode.patch