netdev - Re: WARNING: refcount bug in should

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:59:34 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        syzbot+@...kaller.appspotmail.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: refcount bug in should_fail

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 10:52:12PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:30:56PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp> writes:
> 
> > > I don't think this is a dup of existing bug.
> > > We need to fix either 9ee332d99e4d5a97 or d91ee87d8d85a080.
> > 
> > Even if expanding mount_ns to more filesystems was magically fixed,
> > proc would still have this issue with the pid namespace rather than
> > the net namespace.
> > 
> > This is a mess.  I will take a look and see if I can see a a fix.
> 
> It's trivially fixable, and there's no need to modify mount_ns() at
> all.
> 
> All we need is for rpc_kill_sb() to recognize whether we are already
> through the point in rpc_fill_super() where the refcount is bumped.
> That's it.
> 
> The most trivial way to do that is to move
> 	net = get_net(sb->s_fs_info);
> past
>         if (!root)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> in the latter and have
> out:
> 	if (!sb->s_root)
> 		net = NULL;
>         kill_litter_super(sb);
> 	if (net)
> 		put_net(net);
> in the end of the former.  And similar changes in other affected
> instances.

FWIW, I'm going through the ->kill_sb() instances, fixing that sort
of bugs (most of them preexisting, but I should've checked instead
of assuming that everything's fine).  Will push out later tonight.