On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:18:00 +0800
Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 07:33 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 16:47:23 +0800
> > Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > When reconnecting to automounts at startup an autofs ioctl is used
> > > to find the device and inode of existing mounts so they can be used
> > > to open a file descriptor of possibly covered mounts.
> > >
> > > At this time the the caller might not yet "own" the mount so it can
> > > trigger calling ->d_automount(). This causes automount to hang when
> > > trying to reconnect to direct or offset mount types.
> > >
> > > Consequently kern_path() can't be used but path_mntpointat() can be.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
> > > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > > index 9183821..228866f 100644
> > > --- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > > +++ b/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c
> > > @@ -183,13 +183,14 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_protosubver(struct file *fp,
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > > +/* Find the topmost mount satisfying test() */
> > > static int find_autofs_mount(const char *pathname,
> > > struct path *res,
> > > int test(struct path *path, void *data),
> > > void *data)
> > > {
> > > struct path path;
> > > - int err = kern_path(pathname, 0, &path);
> > > + int err = user_path_mntpointat(AT_FDCWD, pathname, 0, &path);
> >
> > This looks wrong. "pathname" is a kernel string, not a __user one. I
> > think what you need to do here is to turn user_path_mntpointat into a
> > wrapper around a kern_path_mntpointat equivalent and then call that
> > here.
>
> In both cases the path comes from a structure passed from user space.
> So I started thinking it wasn't correct previously.
>
AFAICT, this is a kernel string by the time it gets here.
_autofs_dev_ioctl calls copy_dev_ioctl, which copies that struct from
userland to a kernel buffer.
> >
> > > if (err)
> > > return err;
> > > err = -ENOENT;
> > > @@ -197,10 +198,9 @@ static int find_autofs_mount(const char *pathname,
> > > if (path.dentry->d_sb->s_magic == AUTOFS_SUPER_MAGIC) {
> > > if (test(&path, data)) {
> > > path_get(&path);
> > > - if (!err) /* already found some */
> > > - path_put(res);
> > > *res = path;
> > > err = 0;
> > > + break;
> > > }
> > > }
> > > if (!follow_up(&path))
> > > @@ -498,12 +498,11 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_askumount(struct file *fp,
> > > * mount if there is one or 0 if it isn't a mountpoint.
> > > *
> > > * If we aren't supplied with a file descriptor then we
> > > - * lookup the nameidata of the path and check if it is the
> > > - * root of a mount. If a type is given we are looking for
> > > - * a particular autofs mount and if we don't find a match
> > > - * we return fail. If the located nameidata path is the
> > > - * root of a mount we return 1 along with the super magic
> > > - * of the mount or 0 otherwise.
> > > + * lookup the path and check if it is the root of a mount.
> > > + * If a type is given we are looking for a particular autofs
> > > + * mount and if we don't find a match we return fail. If the
> > > + * located path is the root of a mount we return 1 along with
> > > + * the super magic of the mount or 0 otherwise.
> > > *
> > > * In both cases the the device number (as returned by
> > > * new_encode_dev()) is also returned.
> > > @@ -531,9 +530,11 @@ static int autofs_dev_ioctl_ismountpoint(struct file *fp,
> > >
> > > if (!fp || param->ioctlfd == -1) {
> > > if (autofs_type_any(type))
> > > - err = kern_path(name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
> > > + err = user_path_mntpointat(AT_FDCWD,
> > > + name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
> > > else
> > > - err = find_autofs_mount(name, &path, test_by_type, &type);
> > > + err = find_autofs_mount(name, &path,
> > > + test_by_type, &type);
> >
> >
> > ...ditto in these spots of course...
> >
> > > if (err)
> > > goto out;
> > > devid = new_encode_dev(path.dentry->d_sb->s_dev);
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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