Code: int vfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
	       struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry,
	       struct inode **delegated_inode, unsigned int flags)
{
	int error;
	bool is_dir = d_is_dir(old_dentry);
	const unsigned char *old_name;
	struct inode *source = old_dentry->d_inode;
	struct inode *target = new_dentry->d_inode;
 	bool new_is_dir = false;
 	unsigned max_links = new_dir->i_sb->s_max_links;
 
	if (source == target)
 		return 0;
 
 	error = may_delete(old_dir, old_dentry, is_dir);
	if (error)
		return error;

	if (!target) {
		error = may_create(new_dir, new_dentry);
	} else {
		new_is_dir = d_is_dir(new_dentry);

		if (!(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
			error = may_delete(new_dir, new_dentry, is_dir);
		else
			error = may_delete(new_dir, new_dentry, new_is_dir);
	}
	if (error)
		return error;

	if (!old_dir->i_op->rename && !old_dir->i_op->rename2)
		return -EPERM;

	if (flags && !old_dir->i_op->rename2)
		return -EINVAL;

	/*
	 * If we are going to change the parent - check write permissions,
	 * we'll need to flip '..'.
	 */
	if (new_dir != old_dir) {
		if (is_dir) {
			error = inode_permission(source, MAY_WRITE);
			if (error)
				return error;
		}
		if ((flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) && new_is_dir) {
			error = inode_permission(target, MAY_WRITE);
			if (error)
				return error;
		}
	}

	error = security_inode_rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry,
				      flags);
	if (error)
		return error;

	old_name = fsnotify_oldname_init(old_dentry->d_name.name);
	dget(new_dentry);
	if (!is_dir || (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
		lock_two_nondirectories(source, target);
	else if (target)
		inode_lock(target);

	error = -EBUSY;
	if (is_local_mountpoint(old_dentry) || is_local_mountpoint(new_dentry))
		goto out;

	if (max_links && new_dir != old_dir) {
		error = -EMLINK;
		if (is_dir && !new_is_dir && new_dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
			goto out;
		if ((flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) && !is_dir && new_is_dir &&
		    old_dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
			goto out;
	}
	if (is_dir && !(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) && target)
		shrink_dcache_parent(new_dentry);
	if (!is_dir) {
		error = try_break_deleg(source, delegated_inode);
		if (error)
			goto out;
	}
	if (target && !new_is_dir) {
		error = try_break_deleg(target, delegated_inode);
		if (error)
			goto out;
	}
	if (!old_dir->i_op->rename2) {
		error = old_dir->i_op->rename(old_dir, old_dentry,
					      new_dir, new_dentry);
	} else {
		WARN_ON(old_dir->i_op->rename != NULL);
		error = old_dir->i_op->rename2(old_dir, old_dentry,
					       new_dir, new_dentry, flags);
	}
	if (error)
		goto out;

	if (!(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) && target) {
		if (is_dir)
			target->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
		dont_mount(new_dentry);
		detach_mounts(new_dentry);
	}
	if (!(old_dir->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE)) {
		if (!(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
			d_move(old_dentry, new_dentry);
		else
			d_exchange(old_dentry, new_dentry);
	}
out:
	if (!is_dir || (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
		unlock_two_nondirectories(source, target);
	else if (target)
		inode_unlock(target);
	dput(new_dentry);
	if (!error) {
		fsnotify_move(old_dir, new_dir, old_name, is_dir,
			      !(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) ? target : NULL, old_dentry);
		if (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) {
			fsnotify_move(new_dir, old_dir, old_dentry->d_name.name,
				      new_is_dir, NULL, new_dentry);
		}
	}
	fsnotify_oldname_free(old_name);

	return error;
}

Vulnerability Type: DoS 
CWE ID: CWE-284
Summary: The filesystem layer in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 proceeds with post-rename operations after an OverlayFS file is renamed to a self-hardlink, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a rename system call, related to fs/namei.c and fs/open.c.
Commit Message: vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal

If a file is renamed to a hardlink of itself POSIX specifies that rename(2)
should do nothing and return success.

This condition is checked in vfs_rename().  However it won't detect hard
links on overlayfs where these are given separate inodes on the overlayfs
layer.

Overlayfs itself detects this condition and returns success without doing
anything, but then vfs_rename() will proceed as if this was a successful
rename (detach_mounts(), d_move()).

The correct thing to do is to detect this condition before even calling
into overlayfs.  This patch does this by calling vfs_select_inode() to get
the underlying inodes.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2+