This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating
to the 4.2-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:
debugfs-fix-refcount-imbalance-in-start_creating.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0ee9608c89e81a1ccee52ecb58a7ff040e2522d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 00:01:51 +0100
Subject: debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0ee9608c89e81a1ccee52ecb58a7ff040e2522d9 upstream.
In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access
its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via
failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference
of the vfsmount.
However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still
in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the
reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after
splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and
end_creating() via 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the
end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code
review.
Fixes: 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/debugfs/inode.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -271,8 +271,12 @@ static struct dentry *start_creating(con
dput(dentry);
dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
}
- if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
mutex_unlock(&d_inode(parent)->i_mutex);
+ simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
+ }
+
return dentry;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.2/packet-infer-protocol-from-ethernet-header-if-unset.patch
queue-4.2/debugfs-fix-refcount-imbalance-in-start_creating.patch
queue-4.2/bpf-array-fix-heap-out-of-bounds-access-when-updating-elements.patch
queue-4.2/ipv6-sctp-implement-sctp_v6_destroy_sock.patch
queue-4.2/packet-only-allow-extra-vlan-len-on-ethernet-devices.patch
queue-4.2/net-scm-fix-pax-detected-msg_controllen-overflow-in-scm_detach_fds.patch
queue-4.2/packet-fix-tpacket_snd-max-frame-len.patch
queue-4.2/packet-always-probe-for-transport-header.patch
queue-4.2/packet-do-skb_probe_transport_header-when-we-actually-have-data.patch
queue-4.2/tools-net-use-include-uapi-with-__exported_headers__.patch
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