From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: [PATCH][RFC] =?iso-8859-1?Q?ecryptfs=5Floo?= =?iso-8859-1?B?a3VwX2ludGVycG9zZSgpOqBsb3dlcl9kZW50cnktPmRfaW5vZA==?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?e?= is not stable Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 18:51:33 +0000 Message-ID: <20191103185133.GR26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20191015040730.6A84742047@d06av24.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <20191022133855.B1B4752050@d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <20191022143736.GX26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20191022201131.GZ26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20191023110551.D04AE4C044@d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> <20191101234622.GM26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20191102172229.GT20975@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> <20191102180842.GN26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20191103163524.GO26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20191103182058.GQ26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191103182058.GQ26530@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ritesh Harjani , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wugyuan@cn.ibm.com, jlayton@kernel.org, hsiangkao@aol.com, Jan Kara , Linus Torvalds , ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org lower_dentry can't go from positive to negative (we have it pinned), but it *can* go from negative to positive. So fetching ->d_inode into a local variable, doing a blocking allocation, checking that now ->d_inode is non-NULL and feeding the value we'd fetched earlier to a function that won't accept NULL is not a good idea. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index a905d5f4f3b0..3c2298721359 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_i_size_read(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode) static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *lower_dentry) { - struct inode *inode, *lower_inode = d_inode(lower_dentry); + struct inode *inode, *lower_inode; struct ecryptfs_dentry_info *dentry_info; struct vfsmount *lower_mnt; int rc = 0; @@ -339,7 +339,15 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_lookup_interpose(struct dentry *dentry, dentry_info->lower_path.mnt = lower_mnt; dentry_info->lower_path.dentry = lower_dentry; - if (d_really_is_negative(lower_dentry)) { + /* + * negative dentry can go positive under us here - its parent is not + * locked. That's OK and that could happen just as we return from + * ecryptfs_lookup() anyway. Just need to be careful and fetch + * ->d_inode only once - it's not stable here. + */ + lower_inode = READ_ONCE(lower_dentry->d_inode); + + if (!lower_inode) { /* We want to add because we couldn't find in lower */ d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL;