[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 6 09:52:45 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt11.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 4216710d205676839ae425c45041232ed83b984d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:47:07 -0400
Subject: RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting
something
commit 3cab989afd8d8d1bc3d99fef0e7ed87c31e7b647 upstream.
Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find
a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount.
That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory
(which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_
manage to bind a symlink on top of something. And in such cases we end up
with excessive mntput().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
fs/namei.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 0b79fe47502a..19ac9c89dbab 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1554,7 +1554,8 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
- if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
+ if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
+ unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
err = -ECHILD;
goto out_err;
}
@@ -3015,7 +3016,8 @@ finish_lookup:
if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok)) {
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
- if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
+ if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
+ unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
error = -ECHILD;
goto out;
}
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