This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals 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: procfs-fix-race-between-symlink-removals-and-traversals.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 7e0e953bb0cf649f93277ac8fb67ecbb7f7b04a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:16:11 -0500 Subject: procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 7e0e953bb0cf649f93277ac8fb67ecbb7f7b04a9 upstream. use_pde()/unuse_pde() in ->follow_link()/->put_link() resp. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/generic.c | 12 ------------ fs/proc/inode.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ fs/proc/internal.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/generic.c +++ b/fs/proc/generic.c @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ #include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/idr.h> -#include <linux/namei.h> #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/completion.h> @@ -163,17 +162,6 @@ void proc_free_inum(unsigned int inum) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&proc_inum_lock, flags); } -static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) -{ - nd_set_link(nd, __PDE_DATA(dentry->d_inode)); - return NULL; -} - -static const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = { - .readlink = generic_readlink, - .follow_link = proc_follow_link, -}; - /* * As some entries in /proc are volatile, we want to * get rid of unused dentries. This could be made --- a/fs/proc/inode.c +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/magic.h> +#include <linux/namei.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -373,6 +374,26 @@ static const struct file_operations proc }; #endif +static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) +{ + struct proc_dir_entry *pde = PDE(dentry->d_inode); + if (unlikely(!use_pde(pde))) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + nd_set_link(nd, pde->data); + return pde; +} + +static void proc_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd, void *p) +{ + unuse_pde(p); +} + +const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = { + .readlink = generic_readlink, + .follow_link = proc_follow_link, + .put_link = proc_put_link, +}; + struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct proc_dir_entry *de) { struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(sb); --- a/fs/proc/internal.h +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct pde_opener { int closing; struct completion *c; }; +extern const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations; extern const struct inode_operations proc_pid_link_inode_operations; 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