Christian Brauner c86b300b1e fs: add kern_path_locked_negative() ...

The audit code relies on the fact that kern_path_locked() returned a
path even for a negative dentry. If it doesn't find a valid dentry it
immediately calls:

    audit_find_parent(d_backing_inode(parent_path.dentry));

which assumes that parent_path.dentry is still valid. But it isn't since
kern_path_locked() has been changed to path_put() also for a negative
dentry.

Fix this by adding a helper that implements the required audit semantics
and allows us to fix the immediate bleeding. We can find a unified
solution for this afterwards.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-rennt-wimmeln-f186c3a780f1@brauner
Fixes: 1c3cb50b58 ("VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry")
Reported-and-tested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

2025-04-15 11:32:34 +02:00

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