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From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 11/12] ovl: fix uninitialized pointer read in ovl_lookup_real_one()
Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:35:35 -0400
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 580c610429b3994e8db24418927747cf28443cde ]

One error path can result in release_dentry_name_snapshot() being called
before "name" was initialized by take_dentry_name_snapshot().

Fix by moving the release_dentry_name_snapshot() to immediately after the
only use.

Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/overlayfs/export.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
index 41ebf52f1bbc..ebde05c9cf62 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_real_one(struct dentry *connected,
 	 */
 	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, real);
 	this = lookup_one_len(name.name.name, connected, name.name.len);
+	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
 	err = PTR_ERR(this);
 	if (IS_ERR(this)) {
 		goto fail;
@@ -406,7 +407,6 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_real_one(struct dentry *connected,
 	}
 
 out:
-	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
 	dput(parent);
 	inode_unlock(dir);
 	return this;
-- 
2.30.2