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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] cachefiles: Fix excess dput() after end_removing()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:15:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <508495.1774520128@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4001609.1774391729@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

    
When cachefiles_cull() calls cachefiles_bury_object(), the latter eats the
former's ref on the victim dentry that it obtained from
cachefiles_lookup_for_cull().  However, commit 7bb1eb45e43c left the dput
of the victim in place, resulting in occasional:

  WARNING: fs/dcache.c:829 at dput.part.0+0xf5/0x110, CPU#7: cachefilesd/11831
  cachefiles_cull+0x8c/0xe0 [cachefiles]
  cachefiles_daemon_cull+0xcd/0x120 [cachefiles]
  cachefiles_daemon_write+0x14e/0x1d0 [cachefiles]
  vfs_write+0xc3/0x480
  ...

reports.

Actually, it's worse than that: cachefiles_bury_object() eats the ref it
was given - and then may continue to access the now-unref'd dentry it if it
turns out to be a directory.  So simply removing the aberrant dput() is not
sufficient.

Fix this by making cachefiles_bury_object() retain the ref itself around
end_removing() if it needs to keep it and then drop the ref before returning.

Fixes: bd6ede8a06e8 ("VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: introduce start_removing() and end_removing()")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/cachefiles/namei.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
index e5ec90dccc27..20138309733f 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
@@ -287,14 +287,14 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 	if (!d_is_dir(rep)) {
 		ret = cachefiles_unlink(cache, object, dir, rep, why);
 		end_removing(rep);
-
 		_leave(" = %d", ret);
 		return ret;
 	}
 
 	/* directories have to be moved to the graveyard */
 	_debug("move stale object to graveyard");
-	end_removing(rep);
+	dget(rep);
+	end_removing(rep); /* Drops ref on rep */
 
 try_again:
 	/* first step is to make up a grave dentry in the graveyard */
@@ -304,8 +304,10 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 
 	/* do the multiway lock magic */
 	trap = lock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
-	if (IS_ERR(trap))
-		return PTR_ERR(trap);
+	if (IS_ERR(trap)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(trap);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	/* do some checks before getting the grave dentry */
 	if (rep->d_parent != dir || IS_DEADDIR(d_inode(rep))) {
@@ -313,25 +315,27 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 		 * lock */
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		_leave(" = 0 [culled?]");
-		return 0;
+		ret = 0;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
+	ret = -EIO;
 	if (!d_can_lookup(cache->graveyard)) {
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "Graveyard no longer a directory");
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (trap == rep) {
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "May not make directory loop");
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (d_mountpoint(rep)) {
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "Mountpoint in cache");
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	grave = lookup_one(&nop_mnt_idmap, &QSTR(nbuffer), cache->graveyard);
@@ -343,11 +347,12 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 
 		if (PTR_ERR(grave) == -ENOMEM) {
 			_leave(" = -ENOMEM");
-			return -ENOMEM;
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto out;
 		}
 
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "Lookup error %ld", PTR_ERR(grave));
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (d_is_positive(grave)) {
@@ -362,7 +367,7 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		dput(grave);
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "Mountpoint in graveyard");
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	/* target should not be an ancestor of source */
@@ -370,7 +375,7 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 		unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 		dput(grave);
 		cachefiles_io_error(cache, "May not make directory loop");
-		return -EIO;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	/* attempt the rename */
@@ -404,8 +409,10 @@ int cachefiles_bury_object(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
 	__cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(object, d_inode(rep));
 	unlock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir);
 	dput(grave);
-	_leave(" = 0");
-	return 0;
+	_leave(" = %d", ret);
+out:
+	dput(rep);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -812,7 +819,6 @@ int cachefiles_cull(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, struct dentry *dir,
 
 	ret = cachefiles_bury_object(cache, NULL, dir, victim,
 				     FSCACHE_OBJECT_WAS_CULLED);
-	dput(victim);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto error;
 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-24 22:35 [PATCH] cachefiles: Fix excess dput() after end_removing() David Howells
2026-03-24 22:50 ` David Howells
2026-03-25 12:57   ` Marc Dionne
2026-03-26  7:51     ` David Howells
2026-03-26  9:07       ` NeilBrown
2026-03-26 16:04         ` David Howells
2026-03-26 10:15 ` David Howells [this message]

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