3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 76ae281f6307331aa063288edb6422ae99f435f0 upstream. A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end before configfs_d_iput is called. In this window, if a lookup happen, since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd->s_dentry will be updated to the new dentry. Then in configfs_d_iput(), BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic. sys_open: sys_close: ... fput dput dentry_kill __d_drop <--- dentry unhashed here, but sd->dentry still point to this dentry. lookup_real configfs_lookup configfs_attach_attr---> update sd->s_dentry to new allocated dentry here. d_kill configfs_d_iput <--- BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry) triggered here. To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd->s_dentry if sd->s_count > 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd beside the one that is going to be put. Use configfs_dirent_lock in configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput. With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug. 1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and fill configure in it. 2. run the following script. while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms > /dev/null; done & while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms > /dev/null; done & Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/configfs/dir.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/configfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c @@ -56,10 +56,19 @@ static void configfs_d_iput(struct dentr struct configfs_dirent *sd = dentry->d_fsdata; if (sd) { - BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry); /* Coordinate with configfs_readdir */ spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock); - sd->s_dentry = NULL; + /* Coordinate with configfs_attach_attr where will increase + * sd->s_count and update sd->s_dentry to new allocated one. + * Only set sd->dentry to null when this dentry is the only + * sd owner. + * If not do so, configfs_d_iput may run just after + * configfs_attach_attr and set sd->s_dentry to null + * even it's still in use. + */ + if (atomic_read(&sd->s_count) <= 2) + sd->s_dentry = NULL; + spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock); configfs_put(sd); } @@ -426,8 +435,11 @@ static int configfs_attach_attr(struct c struct configfs_attribute * attr = sd->s_element; int error; + spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock); dentry->d_fsdata = configfs_get(sd); sd->s_dentry = dentry; + spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock); + error = configfs_create(dentry, (attr->ca_mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG, configfs_init_file); if (error) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html