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Commit 60765e43 authored by Dan Carpenter's avatar Dan Carpenter Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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fanotify: Fix stale file descriptor in copy_event_to_user()

commit ee125951 upstream.

This code calls fd_install() which gives the userspace access to the fd.
Then if copy_info_records_to_user() fails it calls put_unused_fd(fd) but
that will not release it and leads to a stale entry in the file
descriptor table.

Generally you can't trust the fd after a call to fd_install().  The fix
is to delay the fd_install() until everything else has succeeded.

Fortunately it requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN to reach this code so the security
impact is less.

Fixes: f644bc44 ("fanotify: fix copy_event_to_user() fid error clean up")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220128195656.GA26981@kili


Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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