From: NeilBrown As well as checking that the parent hasn't changed after getting the lock we need to check that the dentry hasn't been unhashed. Otherwise we might try to rename something that has been removed. Reported-by: syzbot+bfc9a0ccf0de47d04e8c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: d2c995581c7c ("ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c index f76672f2e686..82373dd1ce6e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -1234,9 +1234,9 @@ int ovl_lock_rename_workdir(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *work, goto err; if (trap) goto err_unlock; - if (work && work->d_parent != workdir) + if (work && (work->d_parent != workdir || d_unhashed(work))) goto err_unlock; - if (upper && upper->d_parent != upperdir) + if (upper && (upper->d_parent != upperdir || d_unhashed(upper))) goto err_unlock; return 0; -- 2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty