Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ->s_umount is released once here and again in destroy_unused_super(). Good catch, thanks. The interface has changed over the lifetime of the patches. How about the attached patch? David --- commit b3899e214a6a0e0551f6dc707b28d61b11e718a5 Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 3 22:35:28 2018 +0100 vfs: Locking fix for sget_fc() In sget_fc(), don't drop the s_umount lock before calling destroy_unused_super() as that will drop the lock. Fixes: 8a2e54b8af88 ("vfs: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context") Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 43400f5fa33a..b014cd48a451 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -516,19 +516,14 @@ struct super_block *sget_fc(struct fs_context *fc, continue; if (fc->user_ns != old->s_user_ns) { spin_unlock(&sb_lock); - if (s) { - up_write(&s->s_umount); + if (s) destroy_unused_super(s); - } return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); } if (!grab_super(old)) goto retry; - if (s) { - up_write(&s->s_umount); + if (s) destroy_unused_super(s); - s = NULL; - } return old; } } @@ -545,7 +540,6 @@ struct super_block *sget_fc(struct fs_context *fc, if (err) { s->s_fs_info = NULL; spin_unlock(&sb_lock); - up_write(&s->s_umount); destroy_unused_super(s); return ERR_PTR(err); }