[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt18.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ef7a7c3d150cca82d74e913a83ab71324537c81d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:16:11 -0500
Subject: procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals

commit 7e0e953bb0cf649f93277ac8fb67ecbb7f7b04a9 upstream.

use_pde()/unuse_pde() in ->follow_link()/->put_link() resp.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/proc/generic.c  | 12 ------------
 fs/proc/inode.c    | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/proc/internal.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index cca93b6..c8310e5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
-#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
@@ -163,17 +162,6 @@ void proc_free_inum(unsigned int inum)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&proc_inum_lock, flags);
 }

-static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
-{
-	nd_set_link(nd, __PDE_DATA(dentry->d_inode));
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-static const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = {
-	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
-	.follow_link	= proc_follow_link,
-};
-
 /*
  * Don't create negative dentries here, return -ENOENT by hand
  * instead.
diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 124fc43..2f2815f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>

 #include <asm/uaccess.h>

@@ -401,6 +402,26 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_reg_file_ops_no_compat = {
 };
 #endif

+static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	struct proc_dir_entry *pde = PDE(dentry->d_inode);
+	if (unlikely(!use_pde(pde)))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	nd_set_link(nd, pde->data);
+	return pde;
+}
+
+static void proc_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd, void *p)
+{
+	unuse_pde(p);
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = {
+	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
+	.follow_link	= proc_follow_link,
+	.put_link	= proc_put_link,
+};
+
 struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(sb);
diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h
index 651d09a..8b8ca1d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/internal.h
+++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct pde_opener {
 	int closing;
 	struct completion *c;
 };
+extern const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations;

 extern const struct inode_operations proc_pid_link_inode_operations;

--
1.9.1