From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:03:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <152145383915012@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
lock_parent-needs-to-recheck-if-dentry-got-__dentry_kill-ed-under-it.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 3b821409632ab778d46e807516b457dfa72736ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:47:17 -0500
Subject: lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
commit 3b821409632ab778d46e807516b457dfa72736ed upstream.
In case when dentry passed to lock_parent() is protected from freeing only
by the fact that it's on a shrink list and trylock of parent fails, we
could get hit by __dentry_kill() (and subsequent dentry_kill(parent))
between unlocking dentry and locking presumed parent. We need to recheck
that dentry is alive once we lock both it and parent *and* postpone
rcu_read_unlock() until after that point. Otherwise we could return
a pointer to struct dentry that already is rcu-scheduled for freeing, with
->d_lock held on it; caller's subsequent attempt to unlock it can end
up with memory corruption.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+, counting backports
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/dcache.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -634,11 +634,16 @@ again:
spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
goto again;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
- if (parent != dentry)
+ if (parent != dentry) {
spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
- else
+ if (unlikely(dentry->d_lockref.count < 0)) {
+ spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock);
+ parent = NULL;
+ }
+ } else {
parent = NULL;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return parent;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are
queue-4.4/fs-teach-path_connected-to-handle-nfs-filesystems-with-multiple-roots.patch
queue-4.4/lock_parent-needs-to-recheck-if-dentry-got-__dentry_kill-ed-under-it.patch
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