From: Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
autofs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+002fb7b2d0bc53bf7e75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] PM: hibernate: refuse splice on /sys/power/resume
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 15:57:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417c773d1719006cc85a3468dc393f5e754bf855.1793715774.git.krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1793715774.git.krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com>
resume_store() passes the written string to lookup_bdev() before it
tries to parse it as a device number, so the string is resolved as a
path relative to the current directory of the writer. The syzbot
reproducer writes a relative name from the root of an indirect autofs
mount. Autofs writes a mount request to its daemon pipe while kernfs
holds of->mutex. Together with a splice into a writable kernfs file,
which takes of->mutex inside a pipe mutex, lockdep reports
Chain exists of:
&pipe->mutex --> &of->mutex --> &sbi->pipe_mutex
A splice from the daemon pipe into /sys/power/resume deadlocks when
the written path triggers a mount request. Mark the attribute with
SYSFS_LOOKUP so that its writable opens refuse splice and use lockdep
classes of their own. Plain read() and write() keep their behavior, and
read-only opens retain splice support.
Fixes: 1e8c813b083c ("PM: hibernate: don't use early_lookup_bdev in resume_store")
Reported-by: syzbot+002fb7b2d0bc53bf7e75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=002fb7b2d0bc53bf7e75
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ec0c2add83f18d7a3c726d5d219dfe42@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- New patch. Together with patch 1, this replaces the v1 autofs change.
kernel/power/hibernate.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index e365e440cd5299..9dc5a27f674fa0 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -1316,7 +1316,8 @@ static ssize_t resume_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
return n;
}
-power_attr(resume);
+static struct kobj_attribute resume_attr =
+ __ATTR_LOOKUP(resume, 0644, resume_show, resume_store);
static ssize_t resume_offset_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-03 14:57 [PATCH v2 0/2] kernfs, sysfs: " Krystian Kaniewski
2026-11-03 14:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kernfs, sysfs: refuse splice on writable files that look up paths Krystian Kaniewski
2026-11-03 14:57 ` Krystian Kaniewski [this message]
2026-11-03 15:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] kernfs, sysfs: refuse splice on /sys/power/resume Tejun Heo
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