This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction to the 3.10-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-leave-freeing-a-symlink-body-until-inode-eviction.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0db59e59299f0b67450c5db21f7f316c8fb04e84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:05:11 -0500 Subject: debugfs: leave freeing a symlink body until inode eviction From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0db59e59299f0b67450c5db21f7f316c8fb04e84 upstream. As it is, we have debugfs_remove() racing with symlink traversals. Supply ->evict_inode() and do freeing there - inode will remain pinned until we are done with the symlink body. And rip the idiocy with checking if dentry is positive right after we'd verified debugfs_positive(), which is a stronger check... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -245,10 +245,19 @@ static int debugfs_show_options(struct s return 0; } +static void debugfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) +{ + truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0); + clear_inode(inode); + if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) + kfree(inode->i_private); +} + static const struct super_operations debugfs_super_operations = { .statfs = simple_statfs, .remount_fs = debugfs_remount, .show_options = debugfs_show_options, + .evict_inode = debugfs_evict_inode, }; static int debug_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) @@ -465,23 +474,14 @@ static int __debugfs_remove(struct dentr int ret = 0; if (debugfs_positive(dentry)) { - if (dentry->d_inode) { - dget(dentry); - switch (dentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) { - case S_IFDIR: - ret = simple_rmdir(parent->d_inode, dentry); - break; - case S_IFLNK: - kfree(dentry->d_inode->i_private); - /* fall through */ - default: - simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry); - break; - } - if (!ret) - d_delete(dentry); - dput(dentry); - } + dget(dentry); + if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) + ret = simple_rmdir(parent->d_inode, dentry); + else + simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry); + if (!ret) + d_delete(dentry); + dput(dentry); } return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/procfs-fix-race-between-symlink-removals-and-traversals.patch queue-3.10/debugfs-leave-freeing-a-symlink-body-until-inode-eviction.patch queue-3.10/autofs4-copy_dev_ioctl-keep-the-value-of-size-we-d-used-for-allocation.patch queue-3.10/sunrpc-fix-braino-in-poll.patch -- 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