linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:26:05 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 03:59:26PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > The above (whitespace-damaged) patch may look trivial, but it is
> > *entirely* untested, and maybe my gut feel that the above is the right
> > way to solve the problem is just wrong.
> >
> > Al, any reactions? Hugh, does the above patch work for your
> > stress-test case? Or, indeed, at all?
> 
> Hmm, it worked for my small test, including under memory pressure that
> was shrinking dentries. But my test is not the kind of stress-test
> that you clearly have, so that only means that it has not *really*
> obvious breakages.

Let's not go there at the moment.  I really don't want to pile on more
things needing audit that late in the cycle...  I've posted what
I think is the minimal fix - two lines added in the lazy side of
do_lookup(); if Hugh can confirm that his breakage is gone with that,
I'd strongly suggest going with that one at the momemnt...

Speaking of things found late in cycle: today's catch so far is UFS
being buggered when exported over NFS (trivially fixed, d_splice_alias()
needed there) and cramfs calling d_add(dentry, ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) on
OOM...  Plus yesterday cifs and ceph holes, plus exofs_get_parent()
oopsable due to confusion about calling conventions (it should return
ERR_PTR() on stale, not NULL).

Pending ones: lack of i_mutex in btrfs get_default_root() and bad misuse
of d_splice_alias() in there, *really* nasty one in nfs async sillyrename
(d_move() outside of i_mutex if unlink() goes sillyrename way and gets
SIGKILL while waiting for server to reply) and cifs_get_root() lacking
permission checks, i_mutex and calling d_materialise_unique() on possibly
hashed dentry.  Plus a bunch of dubious places in ceph... ;-/  _And_
remaining fuckloads of places to wade through...
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