kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/generic.c, branch v6.1.178

proc: only bump parent nlink when registering directories

2026-07-24T13:55:02+00:00

commit 16b02eb4b9b272c221255c20d34ccd5db53a3ed3 upstream. proc_register() increments the parent directory's link count for every entry it registers, while remove_proc_entry() and remove_proc_subtree() decrement it only when the removed entry is a directory. Regular files thus inflate the parent's count while they exist, and leak one link permanently on every create and remove cycle. For example, /proc/bus/pci/00 with twenty-two device files and no subdirectories reports nlink 24 instead of 2, and SR-IOV VF enable and disable cycles, each creating and removing the VF config space entries under /proc/bus/pci/, inflate the link count of that directory without bound. Before commit e06689bf5701 ("proc: change ->nlink under proc_subdir_lock"), the increment lived in proc_mkdir_data() and proc_create_mount_point(), and was therefore applied only to directories. Moving it into proc_register() to bring it under proc_subdir_lock dropped the S_ISDIR check. Thus, move the nlink accounting into pde_subdir_insert() and pde_erase(), only updating it for directories in both, so the link count is always changed together with the directory entry itself. Fixes: e06689bf5701 ("proc: change ->nlink under proc_subdir_lock") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5+ Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260613211005.921692-1-kwilczynski@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()

2025-12-06T21:12:35+00:00

commit 895b4c0c79b092d732544011c3cecaf7322c36a1 upstream. Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access. We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE() set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to avoid uaf access. We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase getdent and tun in the same time. The steps of the issue is as follows: 1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current pde is tun3; 2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase them from rbtree. erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2. the pde(tun2) will be released to slab; 3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access. CPU 0 | CPU 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/ | unregister_netdevice(tun->dev) //tun3 tun2 sys_getdents64() | iterate_dir() | proc_readdir() | proc_readdir_de() | snmp6_unregister_dev() pde_get(de); | proc_remove() read_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); | remove_proc_subtree() | write_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [time window] | rb_erase(&root->subdir_node, &parent->subdir); | write_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); read_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); | next = pde_subdir_next(de); | pde_put(de); | de = next; //UAF | rbtree of dev_snmp6 | pde(tun3) / \ NULL pde(tun2) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251025024233.158363-1-albin_yang@163.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: wangzijie Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix type confusion in pde_set_flags()

2025-09-19T14:29:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 0ce9398aa0830f15f92bbed73853f9861c3e74ff ] Commit 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files") missed a key part in the definition of proc_dir_entry: union { const struct proc_ops *proc_ops; const struct file_operations *proc_dir_ops; }; So dereference of ->proc_ops assumes it is a proc_ops structure results in type confusion and make NULL check for 'proc_ops' not work for proc dir. Add !S_ISDIR(dp->mode) test before calling pde_set_flags() to fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904135715.3972782-1-wangzijie1@honor.com Fixes: 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files") Signed-off-by: wangzijie Reported-by: Brad Spengler Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903065758.3678537-1-wangzijie1@honor.com/ Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Stefano Brivio Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files

2025-09-09T16:54:17+00:00

commit 2ce3d282bd5050fca8577defeff08ada0d55d062 upstream. To avoid potential UAF issues during module removal races, we use pde_set_flags() to save proc_ops flags in PDE itself before proc_register(), and then use pde_has_proc_*() helpers instead of directly dereferencing pde->proc_ops->*. However, the pde_set_flags() call was missing when creating net related proc files. This omission caused incorrect behavior which FMODE_LSEEK was being cleared inappropriately in proc_reg_open() for net proc files. Lars reported it in this link[1]. Fix this by ensuring pde_set_flags() is called when register proc entry, and add NULL check for proc_ops in pde_set_flags(). [wangzijie1@honor.com: stash pde->proc_ops in a local const variable, per Christian] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250821105806.1453833-1-wangzijie1@honor.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818123102.959595-1-wangzijie1@honor.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815195616.64497967@chagall.paradoxon.rec/ [1] Fixes: ff7ec8dc1b64 ("proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al") Signed-off-by: wangzijie Reported-by: Lars Wendler Tested-by: Stefano Brivio Tested-by: Petr Vaněk Tested by: Lars Wendler Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: wangzijie Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al

2025-08-15T10:05:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit ff7ec8dc1b646296f8d94c39339e8d3833d16c05 ] Check pde->proc_ops->proc_lseek directly may cause UAF in rmmod scenario. It's a gap in proc_reg_open() after commit 654b33ada4ab("proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()"). Followed by AI Viro's suggestion, fix it in same manner. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250607021353.1127963-1-wangzijie1@honor.com Fixes: 3f61631d47f1 ("take care to handle NULL ->proc_lseek()") Signed-off-by: wangzijie Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Al Viro Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()

2025-03-28T20:59:01+00:00

commit 654b33ada4ab5e926cd9c570196fefa7bec7c1df upstream. Fix race between rmmod and /proc/XXX's inode instantiation. The bug is that pde->proc_ops don't belong to /proc, it belongs to a module, therefore dereferencing it after /proc entry has been registered is a bug unless use_pde/unuse_pde() pair has been used. use_pde/unuse_pde can be avoided (2 atomic ops!) because pde->proc_ops never changes so information necessary for inode instantiation can be saved _before_ proc_register() in PDE itself and used later, avoiding pde->proc_ops->... dereference. rmmod lookup sys_delete_module proc_lookup_de pde_get(de); proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, de); mod->exit() proc_remove remove_proc_subtree proc_entry_rundown(de); free_module(mod); if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) if (de->proc_ops->proc_read_iter) --> As module is already freed, will trigger UAF BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80a702b PGD 817fc4067 P4D 817fc4067 PUD 817fc0067 PMD 102ef4067 PTE 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 2667 Comm: ls Tainted: G Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:proc_get_inode+0x302/0x6e0 RSP: 0018:ffff88811c837998 EFLAGS: 00010a06 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffc0538140 RCX: 0000000000000007 RDX: 1ffffffff80a702b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffc0538158 RBP: ffff8881299a6000 R08: 0000000067bbe1e5 R09: 1ffff11023906f20 R10: ffffffffb560ca07 R11: ffffffffb2b43a58 R12: ffff888105bb78f0 R13: ffff888100518048 R14: ffff8881299a6004 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007f95b9686840(0000) GS:ffff8883af100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: fffffbfff80a702b CR3: 0000000117dd2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: proc_lookup_de+0x11f/0x2e0 __lookup_slow+0x188/0x350 walk_component+0x2ab/0x4f0 path_lookupat+0x120/0x660 filename_lookup+0x1ce/0x560 vfs_statx+0xac/0x150 __do_sys_newstat+0x96/0x110 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [adobriyan@gmail.com: don't do 2 atomic ops on the common path] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d25ded0-1739-447e-812b-e34da7990dcf@p183 Fixes: 778f3dd5a13c ("Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Al Viro Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: fix dentry/inode overinstantiating under /proc/${pid}/net

2022-05-10T01:29:19+00:00

When a process exits, /proc/${pid}, and /proc/${pid}/net dentries are flushed. However some leaf dentries like /proc/${pid}/net/arp_cache aren't. That's because respective PDEs have proc_misc_d_revalidate() hook which returns 1 and leaves dentries/inodes in the LRU. Force revalidation/lookup on everything under /proc/${pid}/net by inheriting proc_net_dentry_ops. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YjdVHgildbWO7diJ@localhost.localdomain Fixes: c6c75deda813 ("proc: fix lookup in /proc/net subdirectories after setns(2)") Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Reported-by: hui li Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fs: proc: store PDE()->data into inode->i_private

2022-01-22T06:33:37+00:00

PDE_DATA(inode) is introduced to get user private data and hide the layout of struct proc_dir_entry. The inode->i_private is used to do the same thing as well. Save a copy of user private data to inode-> i_private when proc inode is allocated. This means the user also can get their private data by inode->i_private. Introduce pde_data() to wrap inode->i_private so that we can remove PDE_DATA() from fs/proc/generic.c and make PTE_DATE() as a wrapper of pde_data(). It will be easier if we decide to remove PDE_DATE() in the future. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124081956.87711-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: Christian Brauner Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Alexey Gladkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: save LOC in __xlate_proc_name()

2021-05-07T02:24:11+00:00

Can't look at this verbosity anymore. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YFYXAp/fgq405qcy@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc/generic.c: fix incorrect pde_is_permanent check

2021-05-07T02:24:11+00:00

Currently the pde_is_permanent() check is being run on root multiple times rather than on the next proc directory entry. This looks like a copy-paste error. Fix this by replacing root with next. Addresses-Coverity: ("Copy-paste error") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318122633.14222-1-colin.king@canonical.com Fixes: d919b33dafb3 ("proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds