Re: [PATCH] Fix d_path for lazy unmounts

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 02 February 2007 19:23, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> here is a bugfix to d_path. Please apply (after 2.6.20).
>
> First, when d_path() hits a lazily unmounted mount point, it tries to
> prepend the name of the lazily unmounted dentry to the path name. It
> gets this wrong, and also overwrites the slash that separates the name
> from the following pathname component. This is demonstrated by the
> attached test case, which prints "getcwd returned d_path-bugsubdir"
> with the bug. The correct result would be "getcwd returned
> d_path-bug/subdir".

It turns out that overwriting the separating slash is the intended behavior for
pseudo filesystems such as pipefs, which end up producing pathnames
like "pipe:[deadbeef]" with "pipe:"  as the root dentry's name
and "[deadbeef]" as the child's name. Special casing this doesn't make a
lot of sense to me, but I guess it will probably have to stay -- quite a few
programs presumable rely on this convention.

Here is an updated patch that also catches this special case.

While looking into this, I noticed that the inotifyfs and futexfs pseudo
filesystems don't use a trailing slash in the root dentry name (see
get_sb_pseudo() in fs/inotify_user.c and kernel/futex.c). Should this be
changed?

> It could be argued that the name of the root dentry should not be part
> of the result of d_path in the first place. On the other hand, what the
> unconnected namespace was once reachable as may provide some useful
> hints to users, and so that seems okay.
>
> Second, it isn't always possible to tell from the __d_path result whether
> the specified root and rootmnt (i.e., the chroot) was reached: lazy
> unmounts of bind mounts will produce a path that does start with a
> non-slash so we can tell from that, but other lazy unmounts will produce
> a path that starts with a slash, just like "ordinary" paths.
>
> The attached patch cleans up __d_path() to fix the bug with overlapping
> pathname components. It also adds a @fail_deleted argument, which allows
> to get rid of some of the mess in sys_getcwd(). Grabbing the dcache_lock
> can then also be moved into __d_path(). The patch also makes sure that
> paths will only start with a slash for paths which are connected to the
> root and rootmnt.
>
> The @fail_deleted argument could be added to d_path() as well: this would
> allow callers to recognize deleted files, without having to resort to the
> ambiguous check for the " (deleted)" string at the end of the pathnames.
> This is not currently done, but it might be worthwhile.

Updated patch follows.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6-d_path/fs/dcache.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-d_path.orig/fs/dcache.c
+++ linux-2.6-d_path/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1739,45 +1739,41 @@ shouldnt_be_hashed:
  * @rootmnt: vfsmnt to which the root dentry belongs
  * @buffer: buffer to return value in
  * @buflen: buffer length
+ * @fail_deleted: what to return for deleted files
  *
- * Convert a dentry into an ASCII path name. If the entry has been deleted
- * the string " (deleted)" is appended. Note that this is ambiguous.
+ * Convert a dentry into an ASCII path name. If the entry has been deleted,
+ * then if @fail_deleted is true, ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) is returned. Otherwise,
+ * the the string " (deleted)" is appended. Note that this is ambiguous.
  *
- * Returns the buffer or an error code if the path was too long.
- *
- * "buflen" should be positive. Caller holds the dcache_lock.
+ * Returns the buffer or an error code.
  */
-static char * __d_path( struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
-			struct dentry *root, struct vfsmount *rootmnt,
-			char *buffer, int buflen)
-{
-	char * end = buffer+buflen;
-	char * retval;
-	int namelen;
+static char *__d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
+		      struct dentry *root, struct vfsmount *rootmnt,
+		      char *buffer, int buflen, int fail_deleted)
+{
+	int namelen, is_slash;
+
+	if (buflen < 2)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	buffer += --buflen;
+	*buffer = '\0';
 
-	*--end = '\0';
-	buflen--;
+	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 	if (!IS_ROOT(dentry) && d_unhashed(dentry)) {
-		buflen -= 10;
-		end -= 10;
-		if (buflen < 0)
+		if (fail_deleted) {
+			buffer = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+			goto out;
+		}
+		if (buflen < 10)
 			goto Elong;
-		memcpy(end, " (deleted)", 10);
+		buflen -= 10;
+		buffer -= 10;
+		memcpy(buffer, " (deleted)", 10);
 	}
-
-	if (buflen < 1)
-		goto Elong;
-	/* Get '/' right */
-	retval = end-1;
-	*retval = '/';
-
-	for (;;) {
+	while (dentry != root || vfsmnt != rootmnt) {
 		struct dentry * parent;
 
-		if (dentry == root && vfsmnt == rootmnt)
-			break;
 		if (dentry == vfsmnt->mnt_root || IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
-			/* Global root? */
 			spin_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
 			if (vfsmnt->mnt_parent == vfsmnt) {
 				spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
@@ -1791,33 +1787,60 @@ static char * __d_path( struct dentry *d
 		parent = dentry->d_parent;
 		prefetch(parent);
 		namelen = dentry->d_name.len;
-		buflen -= namelen + 1;
-		if (buflen < 0)
+		if (buflen <= namelen)
 			goto Elong;
-		end -= namelen;
-		memcpy(end, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
-		*--end = '/';
-		retval = end;
+		buflen -= namelen + 1;
+		buffer -= namelen;
+		memcpy(buffer, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
+		*--buffer = '/';
 		dentry = parent;
 	}
+	/* Get '/' right */
+	if (*buffer != '/')
+		*--buffer = '/';
 
-	return retval;
+out:
+	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+	return buffer;
 
 global_root:
+	/*
+	 * We went past the (vfsmount, dentry) we were looking for and have
+	 * either hit a root dentry, a lazily unmounted dentry, an
+	 * unconnected dentry, or the file is on a pseudo filesystem.
+	 */
 	namelen = dentry->d_name.len;
-	buflen -= namelen;
-	if (buflen < 0)
+	is_slash = (namelen == 1 && *dentry->d_name.name == '/');
+	if (is_slash || (dentry->d_sb->s_flags & MS_NOUSER)) {
+		/*
+		 * Make sure we won't return a pathname starting with '/'.
+		 *
+		 * Historically, we also glue together the root dentry and
+		 * remaining name for pseudo filesystems like pipefs, which
+		 * have the MS_NOUSER flag set. This results in pathnames
+		 * like "pipe:[439336]".
+		 */
+		if (*buffer == '/') {
+			buffer++;
+			buflen++;
+		}
+		if (is_slash)
+			goto out;
+	}
+	if (buflen < namelen)
 		goto Elong;
-	retval -= namelen-1;	/* hit the slash */
-	memcpy(retval, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
-	return retval;
+	buffer -= namelen;
+	memcpy(buffer, dentry->d_name.name, namelen);
+	goto out;
+
 Elong:
-	return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	buffer = ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	goto out;
 }
 
 /* write full pathname into buffer and return start of pathname */
-char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
-				char *buf, int buflen)
+char *d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, char *buf,
+	     int buflen)
 {
 	char *res;
 	struct vfsmount *rootmnt;
@@ -1827,9 +1850,7 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, str
 	rootmnt = mntget(current->fs->rootmnt);
 	root = dget(current->fs->root);
 	read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
-	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-	res = __d_path(dentry, vfsmnt, root, rootmnt, buf, buflen);
-	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+	res = __d_path(dentry, vfsmnt, root, rootmnt, buf, buflen, 0);
 	dput(root);
 	mntput(rootmnt);
 	return res;
@@ -1855,10 +1876,10 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, str
  */
 asmlinkage long sys_getcwd(char __user *buf, unsigned long size)
 {
-	int error;
+	int error, len;
 	struct vfsmount *pwdmnt, *rootmnt;
 	struct dentry *pwd, *root;
-	char *page = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_USER);
+	char *page = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_USER), *cwd;
 
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1870,29 +1891,18 @@ asmlinkage long sys_getcwd(char __user *
 	root = dget(current->fs->root);
 	read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
 
-	error = -ENOENT;
-	/* Has the current directory has been unlinked? */
-	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-	if (pwd->d_parent == pwd || !d_unhashed(pwd)) {
-		unsigned long len;
-		char * cwd;
-
-		cwd = __d_path(pwd, pwdmnt, root, rootmnt, page, PAGE_SIZE);
-		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
-
-		error = PTR_ERR(cwd);
-		if (IS_ERR(cwd))
-			goto out;
-
-		error = -ERANGE;
-		len = PAGE_SIZE + page - cwd;
-		if (len <= size) {
-			error = len;
-			if (copy_to_user(buf, cwd, len))
-				error = -EFAULT;
-		}
-	} else
-		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+	cwd = __d_path(pwd, pwdmnt, root, rootmnt, page, PAGE_SIZE, 1);
+	error = PTR_ERR(cwd);
+	if (IS_ERR(cwd))
+		goto out;
+
+	error = -ERANGE;
+	len = PAGE_SIZE + page - cwd;
+	if (len <= size) {
+		error = len;
+		if (copy_to_user(buf, cwd, len))
+			error = -EFAULT;
+	}
 
 out:
 	dput(pwd);
-
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