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: Sasha 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: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sasha Levin
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