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acct: perform last write from workqueue
commit 56d5f3eba3f5de0efdd556de4ef381e109b973a9 upstream. 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: 1da177e4 ("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> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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