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sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:25:24 +0000 (23:25 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 16:25:46 +0000 (09:25 -0700)
commit9e14083e68a88bc48631d59a3bbdf4a800c1646c
treedae172e078504dff4efd5e6ea8f67a74b9287718
parent64fb82641f3d112fcd8234badd4832e45da59090
sysfs: fix race between readdir and lseek

commit 991f76f837bf22c5bb07261cfd86525a0a96650c upstream.

While readdir() is running, lseek() may set filp->f_pos as zero,
then may leave filp->private_data pointing to one sysfs_dirent
object without holding its reference counter, so the sysfs_dirent
object may be used after free in next readdir().

This patch holds inode->i_mutex to avoid the problem since
the lock is always held in readdir path.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/sysfs/dir.c