Re: query re unlink() ... inotify ... open() race

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:28:27AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> The open() succeeding is surprising. Is that allowed?
> The summary of the sequence in the kernel is:
> 
>   vfs_unlink() {
>     mutex_lock(&(dentry->d_inode->i_mutex));
>     security_inode_unlink(dir, dentry);
>     try_break_deleg(target, delegated_inode);
>     dir->i_op->unlink(dir, dentry);
>     dont_mount(dentry);
>     detach_mounts(dentry);
>     mutex_unlock(&(dentry->d_inode->i_mutex));
> 
>     fsnotify_link_count(target)
>     d_delete(dentry);
>   }

... and ->unlink() is the one to decrement the link count.  With lookup
via dcache coming at some point after that.  idiotify is a red herring
here - stat(2) will report decremented link count just as well.
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