From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
To: ericvh@kernel.org, lucho@ionkov.net, asmadeus@codewreck.org,
linux_oss@crudebyte.com
Cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] 9p: reject RERROR/RLERROR with zero errcode and guard 0-link drop_nlink()
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:17:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260919221734.3708000-1-benquike@gmail.com> (raw)
Fix two issues in 9p client and VFS inode handling:
1. In p9_check_errors() (net/9p/client.c), a malicious or buggy 9p
server returning P9_RERROR or P9_RLERROR with ecode == 0 causes
p9_check_errors() to return 0 (success) while leaving the unparsed
response payload as if the expected reply message type succeeded. Map
ecode == 0 on RERROR / RLERROR to -EPROTO.
2. In v9fs_dec_count() (fs/9p/vfs_inode.c), only call drop_nlink() when
inode->i_nlink > 0 so unlinking an inode whose server-reported nlink
was already 0 does not underflow i_nlink and trigger
WARN_ON(inode->i_nlink == 0).
Fixes: bd238fb431f3 ("9p: Reorganization of 9p file system code")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
index 3829554ca369..12db5ff61554 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static void v9fs_dec_count(struct inode *inode)
if (!(v9ses->cache & (CACHE_META | CACHE_LOOSE)))
return;
- if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || inode->i_nlink > 2)
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) ? inode->i_nlink > 2 : inode->i_nlink > 0)
drop_nlink(inode);
}
diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index ef64546c6d52..e63e8c2a853d 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -448,6 +448,9 @@ static int p9_check_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req)
p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_9P, "<<< RLERROR (%d)\n", -ecode);
}
+ if (!err)
+ err = -EPROTO;
+
return err;
out_err:
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