This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
pstore: inode: Only d_invalidate() is needed
to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
pstore-inode-only-d_invalidate-is-needed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ba45e6073019162aece6e9bdd11193d7d2d8f0f2
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 22 09:48:46 2024 -0800
pstore: inode: Only d_invalidate() is needed
[ Upstream commit a43e0fc5e9134a46515de2f2f8d4100b74e50de3 ]
Unloading a modular pstore backend with records in pstorefs would
trigger the dput() double-drop warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2569 at fs/dcache.c:762 dput.part.0+0x3f3/0x410
Using the combo of d_drop()/dput() (as mentioned in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst) isn't the right approach here, and
leads to the reference counting problem seen above. Use d_invalidate()
and update the code to not bother checking for error codes that can
never happen.
Suggested-by: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 609e28bb139e ("pstore: Remove filesystem records when backend is unregistered")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-hardening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 4b4686c593996..4ca72b08d919a 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -306,7 +306,6 @@ int pstore_put_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi)
{
struct pstore_private *pos, *tmp;
struct dentry *root;
- int rc = 0;
root = psinfo_lock_root();
if (!root)
@@ -316,11 +315,8 @@ int pstore_put_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi)
list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, tmp, &records_list, list) {
if (pos->record->psi == psi) {
list_del_init(&pos->list);
- rc = simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry);
- if (WARN_ON(rc))
- break;
- d_drop(pos->dentry);
- dput(pos->dentry);
+ d_invalidate(pos->dentry);
+ simple_unlink(d_inode(root), pos->dentry);
pos->dentry = NULL;
}
}
@@ -328,7 +324,7 @@ int pstore_put_backend_records(struct pstore_info *psi)
inode_unlock(d_inode(root));
- return rc;
+ return 0;
}
/*
