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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-06-08 03:26:55 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-06-08 03:26:55 +0200
commit3d56c25e3bb0726a5c5e16fc2d9e38f8ed763085 (patch)
tree3b76a5c52293cc900bd55a839831939a4ac47d44 /fs
parentautofs braino fix for do_last() (diff)
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fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race
Ascend-to-parent logics in d_walk() depends on all encountered child dentries not getting freed without an RCU delay. Unfortunately, in quite a few cases it is not true, with hard-to-hit oopsable race as the result. Fortunately, the fix is simiple; right now the rule is "if it ever been hashed, freeing must be delayed" and changing it to "if it ever had a parent, freeing must be delayed" closes that hole and covers all cases the old rule used to cover. Moreover, pipes and sockets remain _not_ covered, so we do not introduce RCU delay in the cases which are the reason for having that delay conditional in the first place. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2+ (and watch out for __d_materialise_dentry()) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index ad4a542e9bab..817c243c1ff1 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct qstr *name)
struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(parent->d_sb, name);
if (!dentry)
return NULL;
-
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
spin_lock(&parent->d_lock);
/*
* don't need child lock because it is not subject
@@ -2358,7 +2358,6 @@ static void __d_rehash(struct dentry * entry, struct hlist_bl_head *b)
{
BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(entry));
hlist_bl_lock(b);
- entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&entry->d_hash, b);
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
}
@@ -2843,6 +2842,7 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *target,
/* ... and switch them in the tree */
if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
/* splicing a tree */
+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
dentry->d_parent = target->d_parent;
target->d_parent = target;
list_del_init(&target->d_child);