This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
VFS: close race between getcwd() and d_move()
to the 4.9-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:
vfs-close-race-between-getcwd-and-d_move.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:45:41 +1100
Subject: VFS: close race between getcwd() and d_move()
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 61647823aa920e395afcce4b57c32afb51456cab ]
d_move() will call __d_drop() and then __d_rehash()
on the dentry being moved. This creates a small window
when the dentry appears to be unhashed. Many tests
of d_unhashed() are made under ->d_lock and so are safe
from racing with this window, but some aren't.
In particular, getcwd() calls d_unlinked() (which calls
d_unhashed()) without d_lock protection, so it can race.
This races has been seen in practice with lustre, which uses d_move() as
part of name lookup. See:
https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-9735
It could race with a regular rename(), and result in ENOENT instead
of either the 'before' or 'after' name.
The race can be demonstrated with a simple program which
has two threads, one renaming a directory back and forth
while another calls getcwd() within that directory: it should never
fail, but does. See:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9455345/
We could fix this race by taking d_lock and rechecking when
d_unhashed() reports true. Alternately when can remove the window,
which is the approach this patch takes.
___d_drop() is introduce which does *not* clear d_hash.pprev
so the dentry still appears to be hashed. __d_drop() calls
___d_drop(), then clears d_hash.pprev.
__d_move() now uses ___d_drop() and only clears d_hash.pprev
when not rehashing.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -461,9 +461,11 @@ static void dentry_lru_add(struct dentry
* d_drop() is used mainly for stuff that wants to invalidate a dentry for some
* reason (NFS timeouts or autofs deletes).
*
- * __d_drop requires dentry->d_lock.
+ * __d_drop requires dentry->d_lock
+ * ___d_drop doesn't mark dentry as "unhashed"
+ * (dentry->d_hash.pprev will be LIST_POISON2, not NULL).
*/
-void __d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
+static void ___d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
{
if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
struct hlist_bl_head *b;
@@ -479,12 +481,17 @@ void __d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
hlist_bl_lock(b);
__hlist_bl_del(&dentry->d_hash);
- dentry->d_hash.pprev = NULL;
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
/* After this call, in-progress rcu-walk path lookup will fail. */
write_seqcount_invalidate(&dentry->d_seq);
}
}
+
+void __d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ ___d_drop(dentry);
+ dentry->d_hash.pprev = NULL;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__d_drop);
void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -2378,7 +2385,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_delete);
static void __d_rehash(struct dentry *entry)
{
struct hlist_bl_head *b = d_hash(entry->d_name.hash);
- BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(entry));
+
hlist_bl_lock(b);
hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&entry->d_hash, b);
hlist_bl_unlock(b);
@@ -2815,9 +2822,9 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dent
write_seqcount_begin_nested(&target->d_seq, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
/* unhash both */
- /* __d_drop does write_seqcount_barrier, but they're OK to nest. */
- __d_drop(dentry);
- __d_drop(target);
+ /* ___d_drop does write_seqcount_barrier, but they're OK to nest. */
+ ___d_drop(dentry);
+ ___d_drop(target);
/* Switch the names.. */
if (exchange)
@@ -2829,6 +2836,8 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dent
__d_rehash(dentry);
if (exchange)
__d_rehash(target);
+ else
+ target->d_hash.pprev = NULL;
/* ... and switch them in the tree */
if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/vfs-close-race-between-getcwd-and-d_move.patch
queue-4.9/sunrpc-ensure-correct-error-is-reported-by-xs_tcp_setup_socket.patch