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a=openpgp; fpr=A5C3F68F229DD60F723E6E138972F4DFDC6DC026 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" It should never happen that get_file() is called on a file with f_count equal to zero. If this happens, a use-after-free condition has happened[1], and we need to attempt a best-effort reporting of the situation to help find the root cause more easily. Additionally, this serves as a data corruption indicator that system owners using warn_limit or panic_on_warn would like to have detected. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7c41cf3c-2a71-4dbb-8f34-0337890906fc@gma= il.com/ [1] Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org --- include/linux/fs.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 00fc429b0af0..fa9ea5390f33 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1038,7 +1038,8 @@ struct file_handle { =20 static inline struct file *get_file(struct file *f) { - atomic_long_inc(&f->f_count); + long prior =3D atomic_long_fetch_inc_relaxed(&f->f_count); + WARN_ONCE(!prior, "struct file::f_count incremented from zero; use-after-= free condition present!\n"); return f; } =20 --=20 2.34.1