The patch titled
Subject: fs, mm: fix race in unlinking swapfile
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile.patch
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs, mm: fix race in unlinking swapfile
We had a recurring situation in which admin procedures setting up
swapfiles would race with test preparation clearing away swapfiles; and
just occasionally that got stuck on a swapfile "(deleted)" which could
never be swapped off. That is not supposed to be possible.
2.6.28 commit f9454548e17c ("don't unlink an active swapfile") admitted
that it was leaving a race window open: now close it.
may_delete() makes the IS_SWAPFILE check (amongst many others) before
inode_lock has been taken on target: now repeat just that simple check in
vfs_unlink() and vfs_rename(), after taking inode_lock.
Which goes most of the way to fixing the race, but swapon() must also
check after it acquires inode_lock, that the file just opened has not
already been unlinked.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e17b91ad-a578-9a15-5e3-4989e0f999b5@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: f9454548e17c ("don't unlink an active swapfile")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 8 +++++++-
mm/swapfile.c | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/namei.c~fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -4024,7 +4024,9 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct user_namespace *mn
return -EPERM;
inode_lock(target);
- if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry))
+ if (IS_SWAPFILE(target))
+ error = -EPERM;
+ else if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry))
error = -EBUSY;
else {
error = security_inode_unlink(dir, dentry);
@@ -4526,6 +4528,10 @@ int vfs_rename(struct renamedata *rd)
else if (target)
inode_lock(target);
+ error = -EPERM;
+ if (IS_SWAPFILE(source) || (target && IS_SWAPFILE(target)))
+ goto out;
+
error = -EBUSY;
if (is_local_mountpoint(old_dentry) || is_local_mountpoint(new_dentry))
goto out;
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3130,6 +3130,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
struct filename *name;
struct file *swap_file = NULL;
struct address_space *mapping;
+ struct dentry *dentry;
int prio;
int error;
union swap_header *swap_header;
@@ -3173,6 +3174,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
p->swap_file = swap_file;
mapping = swap_file->f_mapping;
+ dentry = swap_file->f_path.dentry;
inode = mapping->host;
error = claim_swapfile(p, inode);
@@ -3180,6 +3182,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
goto bad_swap;
inode_lock(inode);
+ if (d_unlinked(dentry) || cant_mount(dentry)) {
+ error = -ENOENT;
+ goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;
+ }
if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) {
error = -EBUSY;
goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile.patch
