summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/CREDITS
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJunxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>2013-11-21 23:31:56 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-22 01:42:27 +0100
commit76ae281f6307331aa063288edb6422ae99f435f0 (patch)
tree4e26896b837b1c22009039f4f8a78dbc2b8500e8 /CREDITS
parentMerge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/pow... (diff)
downloadlinux-76ae281f6307331aa063288edb6422ae99f435f0.tar.xz
linux-76ae281f6307331aa063288edb6422ae99f435f0.zip
configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup
A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end before configfs_d_iput is called. In this window, if a lookup happen, since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd->s_dentry will be updated to the new dentry. Then in configfs_d_iput(), BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic. sys_open: sys_close: ... fput dput dentry_kill __d_drop <--- dentry unhashed here, but sd->dentry still point to this dentry. lookup_real configfs_lookup configfs_attach_attr---> update sd->s_dentry to new allocated dentry here. d_kill configfs_d_iput <--- BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry) triggered here. To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd->s_dentry if sd->s_count > 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd beside the one that is going to be put. Use configfs_dirent_lock in configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput. With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug. 1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and fill configure in it. 2. run the following script. while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms > /dev/null; done & while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms > /dev/null; done & Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'CREDITS')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions