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LSMs often inspect the path.mnt of files in the security hooks, and this causes a NULL deref in efivarfs_pm_notify() because the path is constructed with a NULL path.mnt. Fix by obtaining from vfs_kern_mount() instead, and being very careful to ensure that deactivate_super() (potentially triggered by a racing userspace umount) is not called directly from the notifier, because it would deadlock when efivarfs_kill_sb() tried to unregister the notifier chain. [ Al notes: Umm... That's probably safe, but not as a long-term solution - it's too intimately dependent upon fs/super.c internals. The reasons why you can't run into ->s_umount deadlock here are non-trivial... ] Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e54e6a2f-1178-4980-b771-4d9bafc2aa47@tnxip.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e998bf87638a442cbc6864cdcd3d8d9e08ce3e3.camel@HansenPartnership.com Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.