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Patch "ovl: copy-up: don't unlock between lookup and link" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

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

ovl: copy-up: don't unlock between lookup and link

to the 4.11-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-copy-up-don-t-unlock-between-lookup-and-link.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

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

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From e85f82ff9b8ef503923a3be8ca6b5fd1908a7f3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:41:22 +0200
Subject: ovl: copy-up: don't unlock between lookup and link

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

commit e85f82ff9b8ef503923a3be8ca6b5fd1908a7f3f upstream.

Nothing prevents mischief on upper layer while we are busy copying up the data.

Move the lookup right before the looked up dentry is actually used.

Fixes 01ad3eb8a073 ("ovl: concurrent copy up of regular files")
---
 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c |   24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +12 -12
@@ -252,15 +252,9 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
 		.link = link
 	};
 
-	upper = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, upperdir,
-			       dentry->d_name.len);
-	err = PTR_ERR(upper);
-	if (IS_ERR(upper))
-		goto out;
-
 	err = security_inode_copy_up(dentry, &new_creds);
 	if (err < 0)
-		goto out1;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (new_creds)
 		old_creds = override_creds(new_creds);
@@ -284,7 +278,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
 	}
 
 	if (err)
-		goto out2;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (S_ISREG(stat->mode)) {
 		struct path upperpath;
@@ -317,6 +311,14 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
 	if (err)
 		goto out_cleanup;
 
+	upper = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, upperdir,
+			       dentry->d_name.len);
+	if (IS_ERR(upper)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(upper);
+		upper = NULL;
+		goto out_cleanup;
+	}
+
 	if (tmpfile)
 		err = ovl_do_link(temp, udir, upper, true);
 	else
@@ -330,17 +332,15 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
 
 	/* Restore timestamps on parent (best effort) */
 	ovl_set_timestamps(upperdir, pstat);
-out2:
+out:
 	dput(temp);
-out1:
 	dput(upper);
-out:
 	return err;
 
 out_cleanup:
 	if (!tmpfile)
 		ovl_cleanup(wdir, temp);
-	goto out2;
+	goto out;
 }
 
 /*

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

queue-4.11/ovl-copy-up-don-t-unlock-between-lookup-and-link.patch