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Change History

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ovl: fix warning in ovl_create_real()

Syzbot triggered the following warning in ovl_workdir_create() ->
ovl_create_real():

	if (!err && WARN_ON(!newdentry->d_inode)) {

The reason is that the cgroup2 filesystem returns from mkdir without
instantiating the new dentry.

Weird filesystems such as this will be rejected by overlayfs at a later
stage during setup, but to prevent such a warning, call ovl_mkdir_real()
directly from o

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f5573cfe7a7056e80a92c7a037a3e69f3a13d1c [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/445d2dc63e5871d218f21b8f62ab29ac72f2e6b8 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6859985a2fbda5d1586bf44538853e1be69e85f7 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2ccdd4e4efab06178608a34d7bfb20a54104c02 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9f300a92297be8250547347fd52216ef0177ae0 [No types assigned]