linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 010/266] sunrpc: dont mark uninitialised items as VALID.

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Message-Id: <20190515090723.000470835@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 May 2019 12:51:57 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 010/266] sunrpc: dont mark uninitialised items as VALID.

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

commit d58431eacb226222430940134d97bfd72f292fcd upstream.

A recent commit added a call to cache_fresh_locked()
when an expired item was found.
The call sets the CACHE_VALID flag, so it is important
that the item actually is valid.
There are two ways it could be valid:
1/ If ->update has been called to fill in relevant content
2/ if CACHE_NEGATIVE is set, to say that content doesn't exist.

An expired item that is waiting for an update will be neither.
Setting CACHE_VALID will mean that a subsequent call to cache_put()
will be likely to dereference uninitialised pointers.

So we must make sure the item is valid, and we already have code to do
that in try_to_negate_entry().  This takes the hash lock and so cannot
be used directly, so take out the two lines that we need and use them.

Now cache_fresh_locked() is certain to be called only on
a valid item.

Cc: stable@...nel.org # 2.6.35
Fixes: 4ecd55ea0742 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued request")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 net/sunrpc/cache.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ static void cache_init(struct cache_head
 	h->last_refresh = now;
 }

+static inline int cache_is_valid(struct cache_head *h);
 static void cache_fresh_locked(struct cache_head *head, time_t expiry,
 				struct cache_detail *detail);
 static void cache_fresh_unlocked(struct cache_head *head,
@@ -100,6 +101,8 @@ struct cache_head *sunrpc_cache_lookup(s
 			if (cache_is_expired(detail, tmp)) {
 				hlist_del_init(&tmp->cache_list);
 				detail->entries --;
+				if (cache_is_valid(tmp) == -EAGAIN)
+					set_bit(CACHE_NEGATIVE, &tmp->flags);
 				cache_fresh_locked(tmp, 0, detail);
 				freeme = tmp;
 				break;