From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 00a1a053ebe5febcfc2ec498bd894f035ad2aa06 upstream. Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief window of time. Reported-by: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 15 +++++++++------ include/linux/bitops.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 55fe412b2410..786bf0708904 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include <linux/aio.h> +#include <linux/bitops.h> #include "ext4_jbd2.h" #include "xattr.h" @@ -3922,18 +3923,20 @@ int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc) void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode) { unsigned int flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags; + unsigned int new_fl = 0; - inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC); if (flags & EXT4_SYNC_FL) - inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC; + new_fl |= S_SYNC; if (flags & EXT4_APPEND_FL) - inode->i_flags |= S_APPEND; + new_fl |= S_APPEND; if (flags & EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL) - inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE; + new_fl |= S_IMMUTABLE; if (flags & EXT4_NOATIME_FL) - inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME; + new_fl |= S_NOATIME; if (flags & EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL) - inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC; + new_fl |= S_DIRSYNC; + set_mask_bits(&inode->i_flags, + S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC, new_fl); } /* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags */ diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h index a3b6b82108b9..c1dde8e00d25 100644 --- a/include/linux/bitops.h +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h @@ -185,6 +185,21 @@ static inline unsigned long __ffs64(u64 word) #ifdef __KERNEL__ +#ifndef set_mask_bits +#define set_mask_bits(ptr, _mask, _bits) \ +({ \ + const typeof(*ptr) mask = (_mask), bits = (_bits); \ + typeof(*ptr) old, new; \ + \ + do { \ + old = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptr); \ + new = (old & ~mask) | bits; \ + } while (cmpxchg(ptr, old, new) != old); \ + \ + new; \ +}) +#endif + #ifndef find_last_bit /** * find_last_bit - find the last set bit in a memory region -- 1.9.1 -- 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