From 928f659a3e3650978a5b4829cc982324f72b474b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baokun Li Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2026 12:13:39 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount fuse_iget() can return NULL when its inode allocation fails, but fuse_fill_super_submount() passed the result straight to get_fuse_inode() and decremented fi->nlookup without checking it: root = fuse_iget(sb, parent_fi->nodeid, ...); fi = get_fuse_inode(root); fi->nlookup--; Inside fuse_iget() the inode allocation can fail and return NULL. The submount root takes the iget5_locked() path, whose alloc_inode() can fail under memory pressure (the auto-submount branch can fail the same way in new_inode() or fuse_alloc_submount_lookup()): inode = iget5_locked(sb, nodeid, fuse_inode_eq, fuse_inode_set, &nodeid); if (!inode) return NULL; A NULL root makes get_fuse_inode() a container_of() on NULL and the nlookup decrement a write to a bogus address, oopsing the mount. With CONFIG_KASAN the following null pointer dereference is reported when the root inode allocation of an auto-submount fails (e.g. under memory pressure): ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in fuse_get_tree_submount+0x656/0x8b0 Read of size 8 at addr 00000000000002b0 by task ls/942 CPU: 0 PID: 942 Comm: ls Tainted: G W 6.6 #15 Call Trace: fuse_get_tree_submount+0x656/0x8b0 vfs_get_tree+0x48/0x140 fc_mount+0x13/0x50 fuse_dentry_automount+0x7a/0xb0 __traverse_mounts+0xca/0x330 step_into+0x339/0xac0 path_lookupat+0xc5/0x2f0 filename_lookup+0x163/0x2a0 vfs_statx+0xd5/0x200 do_statx+0x83/0xd0 __x64_sys_statx+0xa0/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2 ================================================================== Return -ENOMEM instead; the caller tears down the partially built superblock on error, matching the other error returns in this function. Fixes: 1866d779d5d2 ("fuse: Allow fuse_fill_super_common() for submounts") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c index 9d877b2e5c12..1c6ee01c6796 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c +++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c @@ -1645,6 +1645,8 @@ static int fuse_fill_super_submount(struct super_block *sb, fuse_fill_attr_from_inode(&root_attr, parent_fi); root = fuse_iget(sb, parent_fi->nodeid, 0, &root_attr, 0, 0, fuse_get_evict_ctr(fm->fc)); + if (!root) + return -ENOMEM; /* * This inode is just a duplicate, so it is not looked up and * its nlookup should not be incremented. fuse_iget() does