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Commit 105d1b42 authored by Sasha Levin's avatar Sasha Levin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fsnotify: don't put user context if it was never assigned



On some failure paths we may attempt to free user context even if it
wasn't assigned yet.  This will cause a NULL ptr deref and a kernel BUG.

The path I was looking at is in inotify_new_group():

        oevent = kmalloc(sizeof(struct inotify_event_info), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (unlikely(!oevent)) {
                fsnotify_destroy_group(group);
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
        }

fsnotify_destroy_group() would get called here, but
group->inotify_data.user is only getting assigned later:

	group->inotify_data.user = get_current_user();

Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cafbaae8
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