From: Matt Fleming
Git-commit: 791eb564d218dabe0f9a2212916fe54240b97afb
Patch-mainline: v3.8
References: bnc#808680
Target: openSUSE 12.3
Unlike the unlink path that is called from the VFS layer, we need to
call d_delete() ourselves when a variable is deleted in
efivarfs_file_write().
Failure to do so means we can access a stale struct efivar_entry when
reading/writing the file, which can result in the following oops,
[ 59.978216] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 60.038660] CPU 9
[ 60.040501] Pid: 1001, comm: cat Not tainted 3.7.0-2.fc19.x86_64 #1 IBM System x3550 M3 -[7944I21]-/69Y4438
[ 60.050840] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d5d1e>] [<ffffffff810d5d1e>] __lock_acquire+0x5e/0x1bb0
[ 60.059198] RSP: 0018:ffff880270595ce8 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 60.064500] RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 60.071617] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b83
[ 60.078735] RBP: ffff880270595dd8 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 60.085852] R10: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b83 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 60.092971] R13: ffff88027170cd20 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 60.100091] FS: 00007fc0c8ff3740(0000) GS:ffff880277000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 60.108164] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 60.113899] CR2: 0000000001520000 CR3: 000000026d594000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
[ 60.121016] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 60.128135] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 60.135254] Process cat (pid: 1001, threadinfo ffff880270594000, task ffff88027170cd20)
[ 60.143239] Stack:
[ 60.145251] ffff880270595cf8 ffffffff81021da3 ffff880270595d08 ffffffff81021e19
[ 60.152714] ffff880270595d38 ffffffff810acdb5 ffff880200000168 0000000000000086
[ 60.160175] ffff88027170d5e8 ffffffff810d25ed ffff880270595d58 ffffffff810ace7f
[ 60.167638] Call Trace:
[ 60.170088] [<ffffffff81021da3>] ? native_sched_clock+0x13/0x80
[ 60.176085] [<ffffffff81021e19>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[ 60.181389] [<ffffffff810acdb5>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xc5/0x120
[ 60.187211] [<ffffffff810d25ed>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
[ 60.193121] [<ffffffff810ace7f>] ? local_clock+0x6f/0x80
[ 60.198513] [<ffffffff810d2f6f>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.26+0xf/0x180
[ 60.205465] [<ffffffff810d7b57>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x2e7/0x320
[ 60.212073] [<ffffffff815638bb>] ? efivarfs_file_write+0x5b/0x280
[ 60.218242] [<ffffffff810d7f41>] lock_acquire+0xa1/0x1f0
[ 60.223633] [<ffffffff81563971>] ? efivarfs_file_write+0x111/0x280
[ 60.229892] [<ffffffff8118b47c>] ? might_fault+0x5c/0xb0
[ 60.235287] [<ffffffff816f1bf6>] _raw_spin_lock+0x46/0x80
[ 60.240762] [<ffffffff81563971>] ? efivarfs_file_write+0x111/0x280
[ 60.247018] [<ffffffff81563971>] efivarfs_file_write+0x111/0x280
[ 60.253103] [<ffffffff811d307f>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x190
[ 60.258233] [<ffffffff811d33d5>] sys_write+0x55/0xa0
[ 60.263278] [<ffffffff816fbd19>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 60.269271] Code: 41 0f 45 d8 4c 89 75 f0 4c 89 7d f8 85 c0 0f 84 09 01 00 00 8b 05 a3 f9 ff 00 49 89 fa 41 89 f6 41 89 d3 85 c0 0f 84 12 01 00 00 <49> 8b 02 ba 01 00 00 00 48 3d a0 07 14 82 0f 44 da 41 83 fe 01
[ 60.289431] RIP [<ffffffff810d5d1e>] __lock_acquire+0x5e/0x1bb0
[ 60.295444] RSP <ffff880270595ce8>
[ 60.298928] ---[ end trace 1bbfd41a2cf6a0d8 ]---
Cc: Josh Boyer
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
---
drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
index 807dad4..2ed59dc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
spin_unlock(&efivars->lock);
efivar_unregister(var);
drop_nlink(inode);
+ d_delete(file->f_dentry);
dput(file->f_dentry);
} else {
--
1.6.4.2
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