Patch "debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty

to the 4.5-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:
     debugfs-make-automount-point-inodes-permanently-empty.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 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 87243deb88671f70def4c52dfa7ca7830707bd31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:18:07 -0600
Subject: debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty

From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

commit 87243deb88671f70def4c52dfa7ca7830707bd31 upstream.

Starting with 4.1 the tracing subsystem has its own filesystem
which is automounted in the tracing subdirectory of debugfs.
Prior to this debugfs could be bind mounted in a cloned mount
namespace, but if tracefs has been mounted under debugfs this
now fails because there is a locked child mount. This creates
a regression for container software which bind mounts debugfs
to satisfy the assumption of some userspace software.

In other pseudo filesystems such as proc and sysfs we're already
creating mountpoints like this in such a way that no dirents can
be created in the directories, allowing them to be exceptions to
some MNT_LOCKED tests. In fact we're already do this for the
tracefs mountpoint in sysfs.

Do the same in debugfs_create_automount(), since the intention
here is clearly to create a mountpoint. This fixes the regression,
as locked child mounts on permanently empty directories do not
cause a bind mount to fail.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/debugfs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_automount(
 	if (unlikely(!inode))
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
 
-	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
+	make_empty_dir_inode(inode);
 	inode->i_flags |= S_AUTOMOUNT;
 	inode->i_private = data;
 	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)f;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from seth.forshee@canonical.com are

queue-4.5/debugfs-make-automount-point-inodes-permanently-empty.patch