[ 14/83] cifs: Do not lookup hashed negative dentry in cifs_atomic_open

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Nov 22 2012 - 16:51:30 EST


3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3798f47aa276b332c30da499cb4df4577e2f8872 upstream.

We do not need to lookup a hashed negative directory since we have
already revalidated it before and have found it to be fine.

This also prevents a crash in cifs_lookup() when it attempts to rehash
the already hashed negative lookup dentry.

The patch has been tested using the reproducer at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867344#c28

Reported-by: Vit Zahradka <vit.zahradka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/cifs/dir.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -392,7 +392,16 @@ cifs_atomic_open(struct inode *inode, st
* in network traffic in the other paths.
*/
if (!(oflags & O_CREAT)) {
- struct dentry *res = cifs_lookup(inode, direntry, 0);
+ struct dentry *res;
+
+ /*
+ * Check for hashed negative dentry. We have already revalidated
+ * the dentry and it is fine. No need to perform another lookup.
+ */
+ if (!d_unhashed(direntry))
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ res = cifs_lookup(inode, direntry, 0);
if (IS_ERR(res))
return PTR_ERR(res);



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