Patch "ovl: Fix info leak in ovl_lookup_temp()" 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

ovl: Fix info leak in ovl_lookup_temp()

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:
ovl-fix-info-leak-in-ovl_lookup_temp.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: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 11:45:24 +0200
Subject: ovl: Fix info leak in ovl_lookup_temp()

From: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>

commit 6a45b3628ce4dcf7498b39c87d475bab6e2a9b24 upstream.

The function uses the memory address of a struct dentry as unique id. While the address-based directory entry is only visible to root it is IMHO still worth fixing since the temporary name does not have to be a kernel address. It can be any unique number. Replace it by an atomic integer which is allowed to wrap around.

---
 fs/overlayfs/dir.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/xattr.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/cred.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
 #include "overlayfs.h"
 
 void ovl_cleanup(struct inode *wdir, struct dentry *wdentry)

@@ -35,8 +36,10 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup_temp(struct de
 {
 	struct dentry *temp;
 	char name[20];
+	static atomic_t temp_id = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
-	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "#%lx", (unsigned long) dentry);
+	/* counter is allowed to wrap, since temp dentries are ephemeral */
+	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "#%x", atomic_inc_return(&temp_id));
 
 	temp = lookup_one_len(name, workdir, strlen(name));
 	if (!IS_ERR(temp) && temp->d_inode) {

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

queue-4.4/ubi-deal-with-interrupted-erasures-in-wl.patch queue-4.4/ovl-fix-info-leak-in-ovl_lookup_temp.patch