Subject: [merged] vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them.patch removed from -mm tree
To: jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx,cvogan@xxxxxxxxxx,neilb@xxxxxxx,stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:41:03 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: vfs: allow umount to handle mountpoints without revalidating them
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vfs: allow umount to handle mountpoints without revalidating them
Christopher reported a regression where he was unable to unmount a NFS
filesystem where the root had gone stale. The problem is that
d_revalidate handles the root of the filesystem differently from other
dentries, but d_weak_revalidate does not. We could simply fix this by
making d_weak_revalidate return success on IS_ROOT dentries, but there are
cases where we do want to revalidate the root of the fs.
A umount is really a special case. We generally aren't interested in
anything but the dentry and vfsmount that's attached at that point. If
the inode turns out to be stale we just don't care since the intent is to
stop using it anyway.
Try to handle this situation better by treating umount as a special case
in the lookup code. Have it resolve the parent using normal means, and
then do a lookup of the final dentry without revalidating it. In most
cases, the final lookup will come out of the dcache, but the case where
there's a trailing symlink or !LAST_NORM entry on the end complicates
things a bit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Christopher T Vogan <cvogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.9+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 182 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/namespace.c | 2
include/linux/namei.h | 1
3 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/namei.c~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them fs/namei.c
--- a/fs/namei.c~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -2184,6 +2184,188 @@ user_path_parent(int dfd, const char __u
return s;
}
+/**
+ * umount_lookup_last - look up last component for umount
+ * @nd: pathwalk nameidata - currently pointing at parent directory of "last"
+ * @path: pointer to container for result
+ *
+ * This is a special lookup_last function just for umount. In this case, we
+ * need to resolve the path without doing any revalidation.
+ *
+ * The nameidata should be the result of doing a LOOKUP_PARENT pathwalk. Since
+ * mountpoints are always pinned in the dcache, their ancestors are too. Thus,
+ * in almost all cases, this lookup will be served out of the dcache. The only
+ * cases where it won't are if nd->last refers to a symlink or the path is
+ * bogus and it doesn't exist.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * -error: if there was an error during lookup. This includes -ENOENT if the
+ * lookup found a negative dentry. The nd->path reference will also be
+ * put in this case.
+ *
+ * 0: if we successfully resolved nd->path and found it to not to be a
+ * symlink that needs to be followed. "path" will also be populated.
+ * The nd->path reference will also be put.
+ *
+ * 1: if we successfully resolved nd->last and found it to be a symlink
+ * that needs to be followed. "path" will be populated with the path
+ * to the link, and nd->path will *not* be put.
+ */
+static int
+umount_lookup_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path)
+{
+ int error = 0;
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+ struct dentry *dir = nd->path.dentry;
+
+ if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ error = -ECHILD;
+ goto error_check;
+ }
+
+ nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
+
+ if (unlikely(nd->last_type != LAST_NORM)) {
+ error = handle_dots(nd, nd->last_type);
+ if (!error)
+ dentry = dget(nd->path.dentry);
+ goto error_check;
+ }
+
+ mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ dentry = d_lookup(dir, &nd->last);
+ if (!dentry) {
+ /*
+ * No cached dentry. Mounted dentries are pinned in the cache,
+ * so that means that this dentry is probably a symlink or the
+ * path doesn't actually point to a mounted dentry.
+ */
+ dentry = d_alloc(dir, &nd->last);
+ if (!dentry) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ } else {
+ dentry = lookup_real(dir->d_inode, dentry, nd->flags);
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+ error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
+ }
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
+
+error_check:
+ if (!error) {
+ if (!dentry->d_inode) {
+ error = -ENOENT;
+ dput(dentry);
+ } else {
+ path->dentry = dentry;
+ path->mnt = mntget(nd->path.mnt);
+ if (should_follow_link(dentry->d_inode,
+ nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW))
+ return 1;
+ follow_mount(path);
+ }
+ }
+ terminate_walk(nd);
+ return error;
+}
+
+/**
+ * path_umountat - look up a path to be umounted
+ * @dfd: directory file descriptor to start walk from
+ * @name: full pathname to walk
+ * @flags: lookup flags
+ * @nd: pathwalk nameidata
+ *
+ * Look up the given name, but don't attempt to revalidate the last component.
+ * Returns 0 and "path" will be valid on success; Retuns error otherwise.
+ */
+static int
+path_umountat(int dfd, const char *name, struct path *path, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct file *base = NULL;
+ struct nameidata nd;
+ int err;
+
+ err = path_init(dfd, name, flags | LOOKUP_PARENT, &nd, &base);
+ if (unlikely(err))
+ return err;
+
+ current->total_link_count = 0;
+ err = link_path_walk(name, &nd);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
+ /* If we're in rcuwalk, drop out of it to handle last component */
+ if (nd.flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
+ err = unlazy_walk(&nd, NULL);
+ if (err) {
+ terminate_walk(&nd);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+
+ err = umount_lookup_last(&nd, path);
+ while (err > 0) {
+ void *cookie;
+ struct path link = *path;
+ err = may_follow_link(&link, &nd);
+ if (unlikely(err))
+ break;
+ nd.flags |= LOOKUP_PARENT;
+ err = follow_link(&link, &nd, &cookie);
+ if (err)
+ break;
+ err = umount_lookup_last(&nd, path);
+ put_link(&nd, &link, cookie);
+ }
+out:
+ if (base)
+ fput(base);
+
+ if (nd.root.mnt && !(nd.flags & LOOKUP_ROOT))
+ path_put(&nd.root);
+
+ return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * user_path_umountat - lookup a path from userland in order to umount it
+ * @dfd: directory file descriptor
+ * @name: pathname from userland
+ * @flags: lookup flags
+ * @path: pointer to container to hold result
+ *
+ * A umount is a special case for path walking. We're not actually interested
+ * in the inode in this situation, and ESTALE errors can be a problem. We
+ * simply want track down the dentry and vfsmount attached at the mountpoint
+ * and avoid revalidating the last component.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 and populates "path" on success.
+ */
+int
+user_path_umountat(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned int flags,
+ struct path *path)
+{
+ struct filename *s = getname(name);
+ int error;
+
+ if (IS_ERR(s))
+ return PTR_ERR(s);
+
+ error = path_umountat(dfd, s->name, path, flags | LOOKUP_RCU);
+ if (unlikely(error == -ECHILD))
+ error = path_umountat(dfd, s->name, path, flags);
+ if (unlikely(error == -ESTALE))
+ error = path_umountat(dfd, s->name, path, flags | LOOKUP_REVAL);
+
+ if (likely(!error))
+ audit_inode(s, path->dentry, 0);
+
+ putname(s);
+ return error;
+}
+
/*
* It's inline, so penalty for filesystems that don't use sticky bit is
* minimal.
diff -puN fs/namespace.c~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them fs/namespace.c
--- a/fs/namespace.c~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them
+++ a/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1318,7 +1318,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(umount, char __user *, n
if (!(flags & UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW))
lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
- retval = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, lookup_flags, &path);
+ retval = user_path_umountat(AT_FDCWD, name, lookup_flags, &path);
if (retval)
goto out;
mnt = real_mount(path.mnt);
diff -puN include/linux/namei.h~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them include/linux/namei.h
--- a/include/linux/namei.h~vfs-allow-umount-to-handle-mountpoints-without-revalidating-them
+++ a/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LA
extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *, int *empty);
+extern int user_path_umountat(int, const char __user *, unsigned int, struct path *);
#define user_path(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, path)
#define user_lpath(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, path)
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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