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Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says: In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to trigger a NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acct(2) to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs() but an internal lookup might be triggered through lookup_bdev(). This may trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs. This series does two things: - Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the (strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk. - Block access to kernel internal filesystems as well as procfs and sysfs in the first place. This api should stop to exist imho. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250127091811.3183623-1-quzicheng@huawei.com [1] * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211-work-acct-v1-0-1c16aecab8b3@kernel.org: acct: block access to kernel internal filesystems acct: perform last write from workqueue Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211-work-acct-v1-0-1c16aecab8b3@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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