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ovl: Check for NULL d_inode() in ovl_dentry_upper()
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In ovl_path_type() and ovl_is_metacopy_dentry() GCC notices that it is
possible for OVL_E() to return NULL (which implies that d_inode(dentry)
may be NULL). This would result in out of bounds reads via container_of(),
seen with GCC 15's -Warray-bounds -fdiagnostics-details. For example:

In file included from arch/x86/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1,
                 from include/linux/compiler.h:339,
                 from include/linux/export.h:5,
                 from include/linux/linkage.h:7,
                 from include/linux/fs.h:5,
                 from fs/overlayfs/util.c:7:
In function 'ovl_upperdentry_dereference',
    inlined from 'ovl_dentry_upper' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:305:9,
    inlined from 'ovl_path_type' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:216:6:
include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:44:26: error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'struct inode[7486503276667837]' [-Werror=array-bounds=]
   44 | #define __READ_ONCE(x)  (*(const volatile __unqual_scalar_typeof(x) *)&(x))
      |                         ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:50:9: note: in expansion of macro '__READ_ONCE'
   50 |         __READ_ONCE(x);                                                 \
      |         ^~~~~~~~~~~
fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:195:16: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
  195 |         return READ_ONCE(oi->__upperdentry);
      |                ^~~~~~~~~
  'ovl_path_type': event 1
  185 |         return inode ? OVL_I(inode)->oe : NULL;
  'ovl_path_type': event 2

Avoid this by allowing ovl_dentry_upper() to return NULL if d_inode() is
NULL, as that means the problematic dereferencing can never be reached.
Note that this fixes the over-eager compiler warning in an effort to
being able to enable -Warray-bounds globally. There is no known
behavioral bug here.

Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Kees Cook authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jul 6, 2025
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion fs/overlayfs/util.c
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Expand Up @@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_realdata(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path)

struct dentry *ovl_dentry_upper(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return ovl_upperdentry_dereference(OVL_I(d_inode(dentry)));
struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);

return inode ? ovl_upperdentry_dereference(OVL_I(inode)) : NULL;
}

struct dentry *ovl_dentry_lower(struct dentry *dentry)
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