[PATCH v4 2/5] fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once()

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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

After request_module(), nothing is stopping the module from being
unloaded until someone takes a reference to it via try_get_module().

The WARN_ONCE() in get_fs_type() is thus user-reachable, via userspace
running 'rmmod' concurrently.

Since WARN_ONCE() is for kernel bugs only, not for user-reachable
situations, downgrade this warning to pr_warn_once().

Keep it printed once only, since the intent of this warning is to detect
a bug in modprobe at boot time.  Printing the warning more than once
wouldn't really provide any useful extra information.

Fixes: 41124db869b7 ("fs: warn in case userspace lied about modprobe return")
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.13+
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/filesystems.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/filesystems.c b/fs/filesystems.c
index 77bf5f95362da..90b8d879fbaf3 100644
--- a/fs/filesystems.c
+++ b/fs/filesystems.c
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ struct file_system_type *get_fs_type(const char *name)
 	fs = __get_fs_type(name, len);
 	if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) {
 		fs = __get_fs_type(name, len);
-		WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name);
+		if (!fs)
+			pr_warn_once("request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n",
+				     len, name);
 	}
 
 	if (dot && fs && !(fs->fs_flags & FS_HAS_SUBTYPE)) {
-- 
2.25.1




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