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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-04-19 12:30:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-04-19 12:30:58 -0400 |
| commit | 22213318af7ae265bc6cd8aef2febbc2d69a2440 (patch) | |
| tree | bb9b6c5e25909555f5243d8983d07c96cfeb08a9 | |
| parent | c9eaa447e77efe77b7fa4c953bd62de8297fd6c5 (diff) | |
fix races between __d_instantiate() and checks of dentry flags
in non-lazy walk we need to be careful about dentry switching from
negative to positive - both ->d_flags and ->d_inode are updated,
and in some places we might see only one store. The cases where
dentry has been obtained by dcache lookup with ->i_mutex held on
parent are safe - ->d_lock and ->i_mutex provide all the barriers
we need. However, there are several places where we run into
trouble:
* do_last() fetches ->d_inode, then checks ->d_flags and
assumes that inode won't be NULL unless d_is_negative() is true.
Race with e.g. creat() - we might have fetched the old value of
->d_inode (still NULL) and new value of ->d_flags (already not
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE). Lin Ming has observed and reported the resulting
oops.
* a bunch of places checks ->d_inode for being non-NULL,
then checks ->d_flags for "is it a symlink". Race with symlink(2)
in case if our CPU sees ->d_inode update first - we see non-NULL
there, but ->d_flags still contains DCACHE_MISS_TYPE instead of
DCACHE_SYMLINK_TYPE. Result: false negative on "should we follow
link here?", with subsequent unpleasantness.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13 and 3.14 need that one
Reported-and-tested-by: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 40707d88a945..494a9def5dce 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1647,8 +1647,7 @@ static void __d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode) unsigned add_flags = d_flags_for_inode(inode); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); - dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE; - dentry->d_flags |= add_flags; + __d_set_type(dentry, add_flags); if (inode) hlist_add_head(&dentry->d_alias, &inode->i_dentry); dentry->d_inode = inode; diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index c6157c894fce..80168273396b 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, inode = path->dentry->d_inode; } err = -ENOENT; - if (!inode) + if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry)) goto out_path_put; if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) { @@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@ mountpoint_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path) mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); done: - if (!dentry->d_inode) { + if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) { error = -ENOENT; dput(dentry); goto out; @@ -2994,7 +2994,7 @@ retry_lookup: finish_lookup: /* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */ error = -ENOENT; - if (d_is_negative(path->dentry)) { + if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry)) { path_to_nameidata(path, nd); goto out; } |