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SubjectRe: linux-next boot error: general protection fault in tomoyo_get_local_path
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 12:36:28AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2020/05/16 0:18, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > This is
> >
> > if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/') {
> > char *ep;
> > const pid_t pid = (pid_t) simple_strtoul(pos + 1, &ep, 10);
> > struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = proc_pid_ns(d_inode(dentry)); // <= here
> >
> > if (*ep == '/' && pid && pid ==
> > task_tgid_nr_ns(current, proc_pidns)) {
> >
> > which was added by commit c59f415a7cb6e1e1 ("Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock").
> >
> > @@ -161,9 +162,10 @@ static char *tomoyo_get_local_path(struct dentry *dentry, char * const buffer,
> > if (sb->s_magic == PROC_SUPER_MAGIC && *pos == '/') {
> > char *ep;
> > const pid_t pid = (pid_t) simple_strtoul(pos + 1, &ep, 10);
> > + struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = proc_pid_ns(d_inode(dentry));
> >
> > if (*ep == '/' && pid && pid ==
> > - task_tgid_nr_ns(current, sb->s_fs_info)) {
> > + task_tgid_nr_ns(current, proc_pidns)) {
> > pos = ep - 5;
> > if (pos < buffer)
> > goto out;
> >
> > Alexey and Eric, any clue?
> >
>
> A similar bug (racing inode destruction with open() on proc filesystem) was fixed as
> commit 6f7c41374b62fd80 ("tomoyo: Don't use nifty names on sockets."). Then, it might
> not be safe to replace dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info with dentry->d_inode->i_sb->s_fs_info .

Could you explain why do you want to bother with d_inode() anyway? Anything that
does dentry->d_inode->i_sb can bloody well use dentry->d_sb. And that's never
changed over the struct dentry lifetime - ->d_sb is set on allocation and never
modified afterwards.

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