linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc/sysctl: don't return ENOMEM on lookup when a table is unregistering

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Date:   Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:57:43 -0800
From:   Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] proc/sysctl: don't return ENOMEM on lookup when a table is
 unregistering

proc_sys_lookup can fail with ENOMEM instead of ENOENT when the
corresponding sysctl table is being unregistered. In our case we see
this upon opening /proc/sys/net/*/conf files while network interfaces
are being removed, which confuses our configuration daemon.

The problem was successfully reproduced and this fix tested on v4.9.122
and v4.20-rc6.

Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ivan Delalande <colona@...sta.com>
---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 89921a0d2ebb..834be5bc3d07 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb,
 	if (unlikely(head->unregistering)) {
 		spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
 		iput(inode);
-		inode = NULL;
+		inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 		goto out;
 	}
 	ei->sysctl = head;
@@ -549,10 +549,11 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p);
-	if (!inode)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) {
+		err = inode ? ERR_CAST(inode) : ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	d_set_d_op(dentry, &proc_sys_dentry_operations);
 	err = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
@@ -685,7 +686,7 @@ static bool proc_sys_fill_cache(struct file *file,
 		if (d_in_lookup(child)) {
 			struct dentry *res;
 			inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->d_sb, head, table);
-			if (!inode) {
+			if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) {
 				d_lookup_done(child);
 				dput(child);
 				return false;
-- 
2.20.0