Patch "autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire

to the 4.4-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:
     autofs-use-dentry-flags-to-block-walks-during-expire.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 7cbdb4a286a60c5d519cb9223fe2134d26870d39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:44:12 -0700
Subject: autofs: use dentry flags to block walks during expire

From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>

commit 7cbdb4a286a60c5d519cb9223fe2134d26870d39 upstream.

Somewhere along the way the autofs expire operation has changed to hold
a spin lock over expired dentry selection.  The autofs indirect mount
expired dentry selection is complicated and quite lengthy so it isn't
appropriate to hold a spin lock over the operation.

Commit 47be61845c77 ("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()") added a
might_sleep() to dput() causing a WARN_ONCE() about this usage to be
issued.

But the spin lock doesn't need to be held over this check, the autofs
dentry info.  flags are enough to block walks into dentrys during the
expire.

I've left the direct mount expire as it is (for now) because it is much
simpler and quicker than the indirect mount expire and adding spin lock
release and re-aquires would do nothing more than add overhead.

Fixes: 47be61845c77 ("fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912014017.1773.73060.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/autofs4/expire.c |   55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/autofs4/expire.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/expire.c
@@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ static struct dentry *should_expire(stru
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
+
 /*
  * Find an eligible tree to time-out
  * A tree is eligible if :-
@@ -430,6 +431,7 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(s
 	struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct dentry *expired;
+	struct dentry *found;
 	struct autofs_info *ino;
 
 	if (!root)
@@ -440,31 +442,46 @@ struct dentry *autofs4_expire_indirect(s
 
 	dentry = NULL;
 	while ((dentry = get_next_positive_subdir(dentry, root))) {
+		int flags = how;
+
 		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
-		if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE)
-			expired = NULL;
-		else
-			expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, how);
-		if (!expired) {
+		if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE) {
 			spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 			continue;
 		}
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+
+		expired = should_expire(dentry, mnt, timeout, flags);
+		if (!expired)
+			continue;
+
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(expired);
 		ino->flags |= AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE;
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		synchronize_rcu();
-		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-		if (should_expire(expired, mnt, timeout, how)) {
-			if (expired != dentry)
-				dput(dentry);
-			goto found;
-		}
 
+		/* Make sure a reference is not taken on found if
+		 * things have changed.
+		 */
+		flags &= ~AUTOFS_EXP_LEAVES;
+		found = should_expire(expired, mnt, timeout, how);
+		if (!found || found != expired)
+			/* Something has changed, continue */
+			goto next;
+
+		if (expired != dentry)
+			dput(dentry);
+
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		goto found;
+next:
+		spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		ino->flags &= ~AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE;
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 		if (expired != dentry)
 			dput(expired);
-		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 	}
 	return NULL;
 
@@ -481,6 +498,7 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *d
 	struct autofs_sb_info *sbi = autofs4_sbi(dentry->d_sb);
 	struct autofs_info *ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(dentry);
 	int status;
+	int state;
 
 	/* Block on any pending expire */
 	if (!(ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE))
@@ -488,8 +506,19 @@ int autofs4_expire_wait(struct dentry *d
 	if (rcu_walk)
 		return -ECHILD;
 
+retry:
 	spin_lock(&sbi->fs_lock);
-	if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
+	state = ino->flags & (AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE | AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING);
+	if (state == AUTOFS_INF_WANT_EXPIRE) {
+		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
+		/*
+		 * Possibly being selected for expire, wait until
+		 * it's selected or not.
+		 */
+		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/10);
+		goto retry;
+	}
+	if (state & AUTOFS_INF_EXPIRING) {
 		spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock);
 
 		DPRINTK("waiting for expire %p name=%pd", dentry, dentry);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from raven@themaw.net are

queue-4.4/autofs-use-dentry-flags-to-block-walks-during-expire.patch
queue-4.4/autofs-races.patch