On 05/28/2012 07:33 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
If we rmdir a directory which is a hard link to '.', we will deadlock trying to grab the directory's i_mutex. Check for this condition and return EINVAL, which is what we return if the user attempts to rmdir "/foo/bar/." Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"<tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 0062dd1..081f872 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2774,6 +2774,17 @@ static long do_rmdir(int dfd, const char __user *pathname) error = -ENOENT; goto exit3; } + if (nd.path.dentry->d_inode == dentry->d_inode) {
Shouldn't this be tagged as unlikely()?
+ /* + * Corrupt file system where there is a symlink to + * '.'; treat it as if we are trying to rmdir '.' + * + * XXX Should we call into the low-level file system + * to request that the file system be marked corrupt? + */ + error = -EINVAL; + goto exit3; + } error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt); if (error) goto exit3;
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