From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
commit 20aac6c60981f5bfacd66661d090d907bf1482f0 upstream.
Validate mount_lock seqcount as soon as we cross into mount in RCU mode. Sure, ->mnt_root is pinned and will remain so until we do rcu_read_unlock() anyway, and we will eventually fail to unlazy if the mount_lock had been touched, but we might run into a hard error (e.g. -ENOENT) before trying to unlazy. And it's possible to end up with RCU pathwalk racing with rename() and umount() in a way that would fail with -ENOENT while non-RCU pathwalk would've succeeded with any timings.
Once upon a time we hadn't needed that, but analysis had been subtle, brittle and went out of window as soon as RENAME_EXCHANGE had been added.
It's narrow, hard to hit and won't get you anything other than stray -ENOENT that could be arranged in much easier way with the same priveleges, but it's a bug all the same.
Cc: stable@kernel.org X-sky-is-falling: unlikely Fixes: da1ce0670c14 "vfs: add cross-rename" Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/namei.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1461,6 +1461,8 @@ static bool __follow_mount_rcu(struct na * becoming unpinned. */ flags = dentry->d_flags; + if (read_seqretry(&mount_lock, nd->m_seq)) + return false; continue; } if (read_seqretry(&mount_lock, nd->m_seq))