From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.7 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9768C67839 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B6220851 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=arista.com header.i=@arista.com header.b="nGkqjhI7" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 93B6220851 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=arista.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726555AbeLMCHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:07:03 -0500 Received: from mx.aristanetworks.com ([162.210.129.12]:58337 "EHLO prod-mx.aristanetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726344AbeLMCHC (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:07:02 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 559 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:07:02 EST Received: from prod-mx.aristanetworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod-mx.aristanetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1075F2CDC; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:57:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=arista.com; s=Arista-A; t=1544666263; bh=eUtNXhHcs9ueVbI76Nf8KJFcSlkSxX6dwssFf0NIdJI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject; b=nGkqjhI7z14HXrw/HXIhrMN6ZjshMkCshLElXXcTdxyDsw2ka+5KOw+7gEX/RWB4M Dc2ESvHYpvsGQuc1Q8CH+TzU8/IssSnFkj+ehtGObBNCZm+NChqILKW0sjrdFrI5lV MWJ6ulSWQvGc9IYE1y/CCC1mNoURdieNfBC5zJGLfjI6uMAlvao2m5+Fu4XiN0xlsx 1UCjpFeWuzk1uBe8FtXinm+Bt3YkKTqwHMzYN17bBTkoiesbE1S/7IGZmoGCzll8E8 Gwiqiu3+3UbglrVxJteqAvMdbpYtfoofiJTdjvgdYGmFFyOfo+DtNruWnDc1ecJtvX elZI/8MqCAtNA== Received: from visor (unknown [172.20.208.17]) by prod-mx.aristanetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FC62C82; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:57:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:57:43 -0800 From: Ivan Delalande To: Luis Chamberlain , Kees Cook , Andrew Morton , Al Viro , "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] proc/sysctl: don't return ENOMEM on lookup when a table is unregistering Message-ID: <20181213015742.GA28776@visor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.1 (2018-12-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org proc_sys_lookup can fail with ENOMEM instead of ENOENT when the corresponding sysctl table is being unregistered. In our case we see this upon opening /proc/sys/net/*/conf files while network interfaces are being removed, which confuses our configuration daemon. The problem was successfully reproduced and this fix tested on v4.9.122 and v4.20-rc6. Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ivan Delalande --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index 89921a0d2ebb..834be5bc3d07 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct super_block *sb, if (unlikely(head->unregistering)) { spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock); iput(inode); - inode = NULL; + inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); goto out; } ei->sysctl = head; @@ -549,10 +549,11 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, goto out; } - err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p); - if (!inode) + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) { + err = inode ? ERR_CAST(inode) : ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); goto out; + } d_set_d_op(dentry, &proc_sys_dentry_operations); err = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); @@ -685,7 +686,7 @@ static bool proc_sys_fill_cache(struct file *file, if (d_in_lookup(child)) { struct dentry *res; inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->d_sb, head, table); - if (!inode) { + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(inode)) { d_lookup_done(child); dput(child); return false; -- 2.20.0