linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:1363 (from cgroup)

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Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:14:53 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/dcache.c:1363 (from cgroup)

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:56:17PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Just mount the cgroupfs:
> 
> # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt
> (oops!!)
> 
> The bug is caused by:
> 
> =========
> commit 0df6a63f8735a7c8a877878bc215d4312e41ef81
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Tue Dec 21 13:29:29 2010 -0500
> 
>     switch cgroup
>     
>     switching it to s_d_op allows to kill the cgroup_lookup() kludge.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> =========
> 
> This line:
> 
> +       sb->s_d_op = &cgroup_dops;

Oh, crap...  Right, it's using simple_lookup().  Let me check if anything
else might be stepping on that.

Umm...  There's a very strange codepath in btrfs that also might.
Interesting.  Fix for cgroup, AFAICS, should be this:

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 5c5f4cc..ffb7bba 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -764,6 +764,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_unlock);
  */
 
 static int cgroup_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode);
+static struct dentry *cgroup_lookup(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
 static int cgroup_rmdir(struct inode *unused_dir, struct dentry *dentry);
 static int cgroup_populate_dir(struct cgroup *cgrp);
 static const struct inode_operations cgroup_dir_inode_operations;
@@ -860,6 +861,11 @@ static void cgroup_diput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
 	iput(inode);
 }
 
+static int cgroup_delete(const struct dentry *d)
+{
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static void remove_dir(struct dentry *d)
 {
 	struct dentry *parent = dget(d->d_parent);
@@ -1451,6 +1457,7 @@ static int cgroup_get_rootdir(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	static const struct dentry_operations cgroup_dops = {
 		.d_iput = cgroup_diput,
+		.d_delete = cgroup_delete,
 	};
 
 	struct inode *inode =
@@ -2195,12 +2202,20 @@ static const struct file_operations cgroup_file_operations = {
 };
 
 static const struct inode_operations cgroup_dir_inode_operations = {
-	.lookup = simple_lookup,
+	.lookup = cgroup_lookup,
 	.mkdir = cgroup_mkdir,
 	.rmdir = cgroup_rmdir,
 	.rename = cgroup_rename,
 };
 
+static struct dentry *cgroup_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	if (dentry->d_name.len > NAME_MAX)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	d_add(dentry, NULL);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 /*
  * Check if a file is a control file
  */
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