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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-18 15:43:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-19 21:49:01 -0700
commit59430262401bec02d415179c43dbe5b8819c09ce (patch)
tree18caba988f1fb650bb804727de06adc73953b2c6 /fs
parentfec11dd9a0109fe52fd631e5c510778d6cbff6cc (diff)
vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry
Don't update *inode in __follow_mount_rcu() until we'd verified that there is mountpoint there. Kudos to Hugh Dickins for catching that one in the first place and eventually figuring out the solution (and catching a braino in the earlier version of patch). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5c867dd1c0b..14ab8d3f2f0 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -942,7 +942,6 @@ static bool __follow_mount_rcu(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
* Don't forget we might have a non-mountpoint managed dentry
* that wants to block transit.
*/
- *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
if (unlikely(managed_dentry_might_block(path->dentry)))
return false;
@@ -955,6 +954,12 @@ static bool __follow_mount_rcu(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
path->mnt = mounted;
path->dentry = mounted->mnt_root;
nd->seq = read_seqcount_begin(&path->dentry->d_seq);
+ /*
+ * Update the inode too. We don't need to re-check the
+ * dentry sequence number here after this d_inode read,
+ * because a mount-point is always pinned.
+ */
+ *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
}
return true;
}