Patch "NFS: fix BUG() crash in notify_change() with patch to chown_common()" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    NFS: fix BUG() crash in notify_change() with patch to chown_common()

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     nfs-fix-bug-crash-in-notify_change-with-patch-to-chown_common.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c1b8940b42bb6487b10f2267a96b486276ce9ff7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Elble <aweits@rit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:51:24 -0500
Subject: NFS: fix BUG() crash in notify_change() with patch to chown_common()

From: Andrew Elble <aweits@rit.edu>

commit c1b8940b42bb6487b10f2267a96b486276ce9ff7 upstream.

We have observed a BUG() crash in fs/attr.c:notify_change(). The crash
occurs during an rsync into a filesystem that is exported via NFS.

1.) fs/attr.c:notify_change() modifies the caller's version of attr.
2.) 6de0ec00ba8d ("VFS: make notify_change pass ATTR_KILL_S*ID to
    setattr operations") introduced a BUG() restriction such that "no
    function will ever call notify_change() with both ATTR_MODE and
    ATTR_KILL_S*ID set". Under some circumstances though, it will have
    assisted in setting the caller's version of attr to this very
    combination.
3.) 27ac0ffeac80 ("locks: break delegations on any attribute
    modification") introduced code to handle breaking
    delegations. This can result in notify_change() being re-called. attr
    _must_ be explicitly reset to avoid triggering the BUG() established
    in #2.
4.) The path that that triggers this is via fs/open.c:chmod_common().
    The combination of attr flags set here and in the first call to
    notify_change() along with a later failed break_deleg_wait()
    results in notify_change() being called again via retry_deleg
    without resetting attr.

Solution is to move retry_deleg in chmod_common() a bit further up to
ensure attr is completely reset.

There are other places where this seemingly could occur, such as
fs/utimes.c:utimes_common(), but the attr flags are not initially
set in such a way to trigger this.

Fixes: 27ac0ffeac80 ("locks: break delegations on any attribute modification")
Reported-by: Eric Meddaugh <etmsys@rit.edu>
Tested-by: Eric Meddaugh <etmsys@rit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Elble <aweits@rit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/open.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ static int chown_common(struct path *pat
 	uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), user);
 	gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), group);
 
+retry_deleg:
 	newattrs.ia_valid =  ATTR_CTIME;
 	if (user != (uid_t) -1) {
 		if (!uid_valid(uid))
@@ -555,7 +556,6 @@ static int chown_common(struct path *pat
 	if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
 		newattrs.ia_valid |=
 			ATTR_KILL_SUID | ATTR_KILL_SGID | ATTR_KILL_PRIV;
-retry_deleg:
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	error = security_path_chown(path, uid, gid);
 	if (!error)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aweits@rit.edu are

queue-3.14/nfs-fix-bug-crash-in-notify_change-with-patch-to-chown_common.patch