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fs: WARN when f_count resurrection is attempted
It should never happen that get_file() is called on a file with f_count equal to zero. If this happens, a use-after-free condition has happened[1], and we need to attempt a best-effort reporting of the situation to help find the root cause more easily. Additionally, this serves as a data corruption indicator that system owners using warn_limit or panic_on_warn would like to have detected. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ [1] Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
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include/linux/fs.h

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@@ -1034,7 +1034,8 @@ struct file_handle {
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static inline struct file *get_file(struct file *f)
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{
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atomic_long_inc(&f->f_count);
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long prior = atomic_long_fetch_inc_relaxed(&f->f_count);
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WARN_ONCE(!prior, "struct file::f_count incremented from zero; use-after-free condition present!\n");
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return f;
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}
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