[PATCH 4.19 015/243] audit_get_nd(): dont unlock parent too early

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-11T15:16:22Z

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit 69924b89687a2923e88cc42144aea27868913d0e ]

if the child has been negative and just went positive
under us, we want coherent d_is_positive() and ->d_inode.
Don't unlock the parent until we'd done that work...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/audit_watch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index 787c7afdf8294..4f7262eba73d8 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -366,12 +366,12 @@ static int audit_get_nd(struct audit_watch *watch, struct path *parent)
struct dentry *d = kern_path_locked(watch->path, parent);
if (IS_ERR(d))
return PTR_ERR(d);
- inode_unlock(d_backing_inode(parent->dentry));
if (d_is_positive(d)) {
/* update watch filter fields */
watch->dev = d->d_sb->s_dev;
watch->ino = d_backing_inode(d)->i_ino;
}
+ inode_unlock(d_backing_inode(parent->dentry));
dput(d);
return 0;
}
--
2.20.1