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jffs2: fix double-free of f->target in jffs2_alloc_inode()

Message ID 20260823152648.23136-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
State New
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Series jffs2: fix double-free of f->target in jffs2_alloc_inode() | expand

Commit Message

Deepanshu Kartikey Aug. 23, 2026, 3:26 p.m. UTC 
jffs2_alloc_inode() does not initialize f->target before returning
the new inode. It is normally cleared later by
jffs2_init_inode_info(), called from jffs2_iget(), but that runs
only after alloc_inode() has already returned successfully.

If inode_init_always() fails in between, alloc_inode() calls
->free_inode() directly on the half-initialized inode.
jffs2_free_inode() then does kfree(f->target) on whatever stale
value was left in the reused slab object, which can be a pointer
that was already freed, causing a double-free.

Initialize f->target to NULL in jffs2_alloc_inode() to close this
window, and clear it in jffs2_free_inode() after freeing it so a
reused or re-freed object can never carry a dangling pointer.

Fixes: 4fdcfab5b553 ("jffs2: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal")
Reported-by: syzbot+675e84fdf3dde67b4946@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=675e84fdf3dde67b4946
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
 fs/jffs2/super.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/fs/jffs2/super.c b/fs/jffs2/super.c
index 81396a092ba8..30d753d4c263 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/super.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@  static struct inode *jffs2_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	f = alloc_inode_sb(sb, jffs2_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!f)
 		return NULL;
+	f->target = NULL;
 	return &f->vfs_inode;
 }
 
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@  static void jffs2_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	struct jffs2_inode_info *f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
 
 	kfree(f->target);
+	f->target = NULL;
 	kmem_cache_free(jffs2_inode_cachep, f);
 }