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CVE-2014-0203: fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage · torvalds/linux@86acdca
The __do_follow_link function in fs/namei.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the last pathname component during use of certain filesystems, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incorrect free operations and system crash) via an open system call.
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fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage
We end up trying to kfree() nd.last.name on open("/mnt/tmp", O_CREAT) if /mnt/tmp is an autofs direct mount. The reason is that nd.last_type is bogus here; we want LAST_BIND for everything of that kind and we get LAST_NORM left over from finding parent directory.
So make sure that it *is* set properly; set to LAST_BIND before doing ->follow_link() - for normal symlinks it will be changed by __vfs_follow_link() and everything else needs it set that way.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [email protected]
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