From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We probably need to fix superblock leak in patch (v4 "fs: Add user namesapace member to struct super_block"): Imagine posible code path in sget_userns: we iterate through type->fs_supers and do not find suitable sb, we drop sb_lock to allocate s and go to retry. After we dropped sb_lock some other task from different userns takes sb_lock, it is already in retry stage and has s allocated, so it puts its s in type->fs_supers list. So in retry we will find these sb in list and check it has a different userns, and finally we will return without freeing s. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 829841e0ae7e..092a7828442e 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ retry: continue; if (user_ns != old->s_user_ns) { spin_unlock(&sb_lock); + if (s) { + up_write(&s->s_umount); + destroy_super(s); + } return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); } if (!grab_super(old)) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html