Miklos Szeredi 6fcbb25da5 ovl: check whiteout in ovl_create_over_whiteout()
commit 5e12758086 upstream.

Kaixuxia repors that it's possible to crash overlayfs by removing the
whiteout on the upper layer before creating a directory over it.  This is a
reproducer:

 mkdir lower upper work merge
 touch lower/file
 mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge
 rm merge/file
 ls -al merge/file
 rm upper/file
 ls -al merge/
 mkdir merge/file

Before commencing with a vfs_rename(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) verify that the
lookup of "upper" is positive and is a whiteout, and return ESTALE
otherwise.

Reported by: kaixuxia <xiakaixu1987@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: e9be9d5e76 ("overlay filesystem")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-11-21 09:21:59 +01:00
2018-11-13 11:12:42 -08:00
2018-11-13 11:12:59 -08:00

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