Hi Peter, Thanks for the report.
Here's a patch. I haven't tested it but I'm pretty confident that it fixes the bug. Thanks, Miklos Subject: vfs: fix audit_inode on negative dentry From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> Peter Moody reported an oops in audit_copy_inode() and bisected it to commit 7157486541 (vfs: do_last(): common slow lookup). The problem is that audit_inode() in do_last() is called with a negative dentry. Previously the non-O_CREAT case didn't call audit_inode() here, but now both O_CREAT and non-O_CREAT opens are handled by the same code. I really have no idea why this audit_inode() is needed here at all but am afaid to remove this for fear of breaking audit somehow. So just fix this case by checking for a negative dentry. Reported-by: Peter Moody <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] --- fs/namei.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c 2012-08-01 17:47:28.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c 2012-08-01 17:49:26.000000000 +0200 @@ -2607,10 +2607,12 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, goto finish_open_created; } - /* - * It already exists. - */ - audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry); + if (path->dentry->d_inode) { + /* + * It already exists. + */ + audit_inode(pathname, path->dentry); + } /* * If atomic_open() acquired write access it is dropped now due to -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
