[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "nfsd: nfsd_open: when dentry_open returns an error do not propagate" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    nfsd: nfsd_open: when dentry_open returns an error do not propagate

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bdad32722b85588470a35c8d36323c83914e48d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:21:35 +1000
Subject: nfsd: nfsd_open: when dentry_open returns an error do not propagate
 as struct file

commit e4daf1ffbe6cc3b12aab4d604e627829e93e9914 upstream.

The following call chain:
------------------------------------------------------------
nfs4_get_vfs_file
- nfsd_open
  - dentry_open
    - do_dentry_open
      - __get_file_write_access
        - get_write_access
          - return atomic_inc_unless_negative(&inode->i_writecount) ? 0 : -ETXTBSY;
------------------------------------------------------------

can result in the following state:
------------------------------------------------------------
struct nfs4_file {
...
  fi_fds = {0xffff880c1fa65c80, 0xffffffffffffffe6, 0x0},
  fi_access = {{
      counter = 0x1
    }, {
      counter = 0x0
    }},
...
------------------------------------------------------------

1) First time around, in nfs4_get_vfs_file() fp->fi_fds[O_WRONLY] is
NULL, hence nfsd_open() is called where we get status set to an error
and fp->fi_fds[O_WRONLY] to -ETXTBSY. Thus we do not reach
nfs4_file_get_access() and fi_access[O_WRONLY] is not incremented.

2) Second time around, in nfs4_get_vfs_file() fp->fi_fds[O_WRONLY] is
NOT NULL (-ETXTBSY), so nfsd_open() is NOT called, but
nfs4_file_get_access() IS called and fi_access[O_WRONLY] is incremented.
Thus we leave a landmine in the form of the nfs4_file data structure in
an incorrect state.

3) Eventually, when __nfs4_file_put_access() is called it finds
fi_access[O_WRONLY] being non-zero, it decrements it and calls
nfs4_file_put_fd() which tries to fput -ETXTBSY.
------------------------------------------------------------
...
     [exception RIP: fput+0x9]
     RIP: ffffffff81177fa9  RSP: ffff88062e365c90  RFLAGS: 00010282
     RAX: ffff880c2b3d99cc  RBX: ffff880c2b3d9978  RCX: 0000000000000002
     RDX: dead000000100101  RSI: 0000000000000001  RDI: ffffffffffffffe6
     RBP: ffff88062e365c90   R8: ffff88041fe797d8   R9: ffff88062e365d58
     R10: 0000000000000008  R11: 0000000000000000  R12: 0000000000000001
     R13: 0000000000000007  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: 0000000000000000
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
  #9 [ffff88062e365c98] __nfs4_file_put_access at ffffffffa0562334 [nfsd]
 #10 [ffff88062e365cc8] nfs4_file_put_access at ffffffffa05623ab [nfsd]
 #11 [ffff88062e365ce8] free_generic_stateid at ffffffffa056634d [nfsd]
 #12 [ffff88062e365d18] release_open_stateid at ffffffffa0566e4b [nfsd]
 #13 [ffff88062e365d38] nfsd4_close at ffffffffa0567401 [nfsd]
 #14 [ffff88062e365d88] nfsd4_proc_compound at ffffffffa0557f28 [nfsd]
 #15 [ffff88062e365dd8] nfsd_dispatch at ffffffffa054543e [nfsd]
 #16 [ffff88062e365e18] svc_process_common at ffffffffa04ba5a4 [sunrpc]
 #17 [ffff88062e365e98] svc_process at ffffffffa04babe0 [sunrpc]
 #18 [ffff88062e365eb8] nfsd at ffffffffa0545b62 [nfsd]
 #19 [ffff88062e365ee8] kthread at ffffffff81090886
 #20 [ffff88062e365f48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c14a
------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 69c6413..10f950f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -802,9 +802,10 @@ nfsd_open(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, umode_t type,
 			flags = O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE;
 	}
 	*filp = dentry_open(&path, flags, current_cred());
-	if (IS_ERR(*filp))
+	if (IS_ERR(*filp)) {
 		host_err = PTR_ERR(*filp);
-	else {
+		*filp = NULL;
+	} else {
 		host_err = ima_file_check(*filp, may_flags);

 		if (may_flags & NFSD_MAY_64BIT_COOKIE)
--
1.8.1.2