This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify
to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: ovl-hash-directory-inodes-for-fsnotify.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 31747eda41ef3c30c09c5c096b380bf54013746a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:35:40 +0200 Subject: ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify
From: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com
commit 31747eda41ef3c30c09c5c096b380bf54013746a upstream.
fsnotify pins a watched directory inode in cache, but if directory dentry is released, new lookup will allocate a new dentry and a new inode. Directory events will be notified on the new inode, while fsnotify listener is watching the old pinned inode.
Hash all directory inodes to reuse the pinned inode on lookup. Pure upper dirs are hashes by real upper inode, merge and lower dirs are hashed by real lower inode.
The reference to lower inode was being held by the lower dentry object in the overlay dentry (oe->lowerstack[0]). Releasing the overlay dentry may drop lower inode refcount to zero. Add a refcount on behalf of the overlay inode to prevent that.
As a by-product, hashing directory inodes also detects multiple redirected dirs to the same lower dir and uncovered redirected dir target on and returns -ESTALE on lookup.
The reported issue dates back to initial version of overlayfs, but this patch depends on ovl_inode code that was introduced in kernel v4.13.
Reported-by: Niklas Cassel niklas.cassel@axis.com Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com Tested-by: Niklas Cassel niklas.cassel@axis.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + fs/overlayfs/util.c | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -606,6 +606,16 @@ static int ovl_inode_set(struct inode *i static bool ovl_verify_inode(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *lowerdentry, struct dentry *upperdentry) { + if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { + /* Real lower dir moved to upper layer under us? */ + if (!lowerdentry && ovl_inode_lower(inode)) + return false; + + /* Lookup of an uncovered redirect origin? */ + if (!upperdentry && ovl_inode_upper(inode)) + return false; + } + /* * Allow non-NULL lower inode in ovl_inode even if lowerdentry is NULL. * This happens when finding a copied up overlay inode for a renamed @@ -633,6 +643,8 @@ struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct dentr struct inode *inode; /* Already indexed or could be indexed on copy up? */ bool indexed = (index || (ovl_indexdir(dentry->d_sb) && !upperdentry)); + struct dentry *origin = indexed ? lowerdentry : NULL; + bool is_dir;
if (WARN_ON(upperdentry && indexed && !lowerdentry)) return ERR_PTR(-EIO); @@ -641,15 +653,19 @@ struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct dentr realinode = d_inode(lowerdentry);
/* - * Copy up origin (lower) may exist for non-indexed upper, but we must - * not use lower as hash key in that case. - * Hash inodes that are or could be indexed by origin inode and - * non-indexed upper inodes that could be hard linked by upper inode. + * Copy up origin (lower) may exist for non-indexed non-dir upper, but + * we must not use lower as hash key in that case. + * Hash non-dir that is or could be indexed by origin inode. + * Hash dir that is or could be merged by origin inode. + * Hash pure upper and non-indexed non-dir by upper inode. */ - if (!S_ISDIR(realinode->i_mode) && (upperdentry || indexed)) { - struct inode *key = d_inode(indexed ? lowerdentry : - upperdentry); - unsigned int nlink; + is_dir = S_ISDIR(realinode->i_mode); + if (is_dir) + origin = lowerdentry; + + if (upperdentry || origin) { + struct inode *key = d_inode(origin ?: upperdentry); + unsigned int nlink = is_dir ? 1 : realinode->i_nlink;
inode = iget5_locked(dentry->d_sb, (unsigned long) key, ovl_inode_test, ovl_inode_set, key); @@ -670,8 +686,9 @@ struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct dentr goto out; }
- nlink = ovl_get_nlink(lowerdentry, upperdentry, - realinode->i_nlink); + /* Recalculate nlink for non-dir due to indexing */ + if (!is_dir) + nlink = ovl_get_nlink(lowerdentry, upperdentry, nlink); set_nlink(inode, nlink); } else { inode = new_inode(dentry->d_sb); @@ -685,7 +702,7 @@ struct inode *ovl_get_inode(struct dentr ovl_set_flag(OVL_IMPURE, inode);
/* Check for non-merge dir that may have whiteouts */ - if (S_ISDIR(realinode->i_mode)) { + if (is_dir) { struct ovl_entry *oe = dentry->d_fsdata;
if (((upperdentry && lowerdentry) || oe->numlower > 1) || --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static void ovl_destroy_inode(struct ino struct ovl_inode *oi = OVL_I(inode);
dput(oi->__upperdentry); + iput(oi->lower); kfree(oi->redirect); ovl_dir_cache_free(inode); mutex_destroy(&oi->lock); --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ void ovl_inode_init(struct inode *inode, if (upperdentry) OVL_I(inode)->__upperdentry = upperdentry; if (lowerdentry) - OVL_I(inode)->lower = d_inode(lowerdentry); + OVL_I(inode)->lower = igrab(d_inode(lowerdentry));
ovl_copyattr(d_inode(upperdentry ?: lowerdentry), inode); } @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ void ovl_inode_update(struct inode *inod */ smp_wmb(); OVL_I(inode)->__upperdentry = upperdentry; - if (!S_ISDIR(upperinode->i_mode) && inode_unhashed(inode)) { + if (inode_unhashed(inode)) { inode->i_private = upperinode; __insert_inode_hash(inode, (unsigned long) upperinode); }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@gmail.com are
queue-4.15/ovl-take-mnt_want_write-for-removing-impure-xattr.patch queue-4.15/ovl-take-mnt_want_write-for-work-index-dir-setup.patch queue-4.15/ovl-hash-directory-inodes-for-fsnotify.patch queue-4.15/ovl-force-r-o-mount-when-index-dir-creation-fails.patch queue-4.15/ovl-fix-failure-to-fsync-lower-dir.patch