-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Casey Schaufler upstream commit: e97dcb0eadbb821eccd549d4987b653cf61e2374 The d_instantiate hook for Smack can hang on the root inode of a filesystem if the file system code has not really done all the set-up. Fuse is known to encounter this problem. This change detects an attempt to instantiate a root inode and addresses it early in the processing, before any attempt is made to do something that might hang. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -1865,6 +1865,18 @@ static void smack_d_instantiate(struct d final = sbsp->smk_default; /* + * If this is the root inode the superblock + * may be in the process of initialization. + * If that is the case use the root value out + * of the superblock. + */ + if (opt_dentry->d_parent == opt_dentry) { + isp->smk_inode = sbsp->smk_root; + isp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_INSTANT; + goto unlockandout; + } + + /* * This is pretty hackish. * Casey says that we shouldn't have to do * file system specific code, but it does help -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/