2015-01-21, 16:39:12 +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:24:11AM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 03:42:16 PM Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:05:39PM +0100, Sabrina Dubroca wrote:
> > > > 2015-01-21, 04:36:38 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:01:26PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > > With this patch:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > sys_mkdir .:40775 returned -17
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr/lib:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr/share:40755 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr/share/udhcpc:40755 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr/bin:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir usr/sbin:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir mnt:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir proc:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir root:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir lib:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > sys_mkdir lib/modules:40775 returned 0
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > and the problem is fixed.
> > > >
> > > > This patch also works for me.
> > > >
> > > > > ... except that it simply confirms that something's fishy with
> > > > > getname_kernel() of ->name of struct filename returned by getname().
> > > > > IOW, I still do not understand the mechanism of breakage there.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not so sure about that. I tried to copy name to a new string in
> > > > do_path_lookup and that didn't help.
> > > >
> > > > Now, I've removed the
> > > >
> > > > putname(filename);
> > > >
> > > > line from do_path_lookup and I don't get the panic.
> > >
> > > That would indicate that somehow the refcount got unbalanced. Looking
> > > more closely it seems like the various audit_*() function do take a
> > > reference, but maybe that's not enough.
> >
> > I'm thinking the same thing and I think the problem may be that
> > __audit_reusename() is not bumping the filename->refcnt. Can someone who is
> > seeing this problem bump the refcnt in __audit_reusename()?
> >
> > struct filename *
> > __audit_reusename(const __user char *uptr)
> > {
> > struct audit_context *context = current->audit_context;
> > struct audit_names *n;
> >
> > list_for_each_entry(n, &context->names_list, list) {
> > if (!n->name)
> > continue;
> > if (n->name->uptr == uptr) {
> > + n->name->refcnt++;
> > return n->name;
> > }
> > }
> > return NULL;
> > }
>
> That doesn't seem to help, at least in my case.
Same here.
Well, it's probably not an audit issue. I tried audit=0 on the
commandline, and I just rebuilt a kernel with CONFIG_AUDIT=n, and it's
still panicing. This should have fixed any audit-related issue,
right?
--
Sabrina
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