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In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to
trigger NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that
triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acc(2)
to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file
happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs(). A
lookup will thus trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs.
Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the
workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the
(strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk.
This api should stop to exist though.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250127091811.3183623-1-quzicheng@huawei.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250211-work-acct-v1-1-1c16aecab8b3@kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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