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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)
commitf2aaf74ad023e5e6008da2b8c459163944034117
tree48d024ff8abaa9efca5d38d93602188211c0130a
parent16f8a08df40edc141f10536d79f950849e6b8659
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