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ext4: force revalidation of directory pointer after seekdir(2)
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 2 Apr 2018 03:21:03 +0000 (23:21 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 2 Apr 2018 03:21:03 +0000 (23:21 -0400)
commite40ff213898502d299351cc2fe1e350cd186f0d3
tree48d024ff8abaa9efca5d38d93602188211c0130a
parent54dd0e0a1b255f115f8647fc6fb93273251b01b9
ext4: force revalidation of directory pointer after seekdir(2)

A malicious user could force the directory pointer to be in an invalid
spot by using seekdir(2).  Use the mechanism we already have to notice
if the directory has changed since the last time we called
ext4_readdir() to force a revalidation of the pointer.

Reported-by: syzbot+1236ce66f79263e8a862@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
fs/ext4/dir.c