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

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Message-ID: <20110718182030.GF11013@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:20:30 +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 Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Also, looking at that whole mount-point traversal sequence, it looks
> like __follow_mount_rcu() will happily totally ignore the old sequence
> number when it replaces it with the mount-point sequence number. So it
> looks to me that we have a case where we miss the sequence number
> check that can happen with a positive dentry too!
> 
> No?
> 
> So I think that whenever we change "nd->seq", we should always heck
> the previous sequence number first (the way do_lookup() itself does
> for the *normal* traversal case). Otherwise we will have traversed the
> mount-point without ever having checked the previous sequence number.
> 
> Something like the (untested) attached patch.
> 
> Comments? This mount-point case is independent of the negative dentry
> issue, and probably never really an issue in practice, but...

->mnt_mountpoint and ->mnt_root are both pinned (and protected by
vfsmount_lock, while we are at it).  If it manages to get stale,
we have worse problems...
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