[PATCH 1/1] sunrpc: fix use-after-free in __rpc_clnt_handle_event and __rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir
From: Ren Wei <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-07 05:21:06
Also in:
linux-nfs
Subsystem:
kernel nfsd, sunrpc, and lockd servers, networking [general], nfs, sunrpc, and lockd clients, the rest · Maintainers:
Chuck Lever, Jeff Layton, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Trond Myklebust, Anna Schumaker, Linus Torvalds
From: Luxiao Xu <redacted>
Normal client creation goes through rpc_setup_pipedir(), which records
clnt->pipefs_sb, but the mount-event path in __rpc_clnt_handle_event()
calls rpc_setup_pipedir_sb() directly and never refreshes that field.
The umount path also removes the directory without clearing
clnt->pipefs_sb.
After a late pipefs mount or any remount, rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir()
compares the current superblock against a stale pipefs_sb pointer and
skips cleanup, leaving pipefs dentries whose inode private data still
points at a freed rpc_clnt, leading to a potential use-after-free during
subsequent rpc_info_open() or rpc_show_info() calls.
Fix this by properly updating clnt->pipefs_sb upon mount events and
clearing it during unmount or failure paths.
Fixes: bfca5fb4e97c ("SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <redacted>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ren Wei <redacted>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Luxiao Xu <redacted>
---
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index bc8ca470718b..85fdd8ba94a4 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c@@ -96,7 +96,10 @@ static void rpc_unregister_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt) static void __rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir(struct rpc_clnt *clnt) { - rpc_remove_client_dir(clnt); + if (clnt->pipefs_sb) { + rpc_remove_client_dir(clnt); + clnt->pipefs_sb = NULL; + } } static void rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
@@ -177,19 +180,28 @@ static int rpc_clnt_skip_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event) } static int __rpc_clnt_handle_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event, - struct super_block *sb) + struct super_block *sb) { + int err = 0; + switch (event) { case RPC_PIPEFS_MOUNT: - return rpc_setup_pipedir_sb(sb, clnt); + clnt->pipefs_sb = sb; + err = rpc_setup_pipedir_sb(sb, clnt); + if (err) + clnt->pipefs_sb = NULL; + break; case RPC_PIPEFS_UMOUNT: - __rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir(clnt); + if (clnt->pipefs_sb == sb) { + __rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir(clnt); + clnt->pipefs_sb = NULL; + } break; default: printk(KERN_ERR "%s: unknown event: %ld\n", __func__, event); return -ENOTSUPP; } - return 0; + return err; } static int __rpc_pipefs_event(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long event,
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