[PATCH 3.12 043/119] fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Thu Sep 29 2016 - 06:48:00 EST


From: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>

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

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I checked Jari's explanation below and found that v3.14.77 and v3.12.62
are missing the same fix as 3.10. In fact Al's original commit 3d56c25
("fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race") used to mention to check
this __d_materialise_dentry() function in the Cc: stable line, but this
got lost during the backports.

Normally all of our 3 kernels need to apply the following patch that
Ben correctly put in 3.16 and 3.2. I'm fixing the backport in 3.10.103
right now.

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 04:56:57PM +0300, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> This patch for 3.10 branch appears to be missing one important
>
> + dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
>
> in fs/dcache.c __d_materialise_dentry() function. When Ben Hutchings
> backported Al Viro's original fix to stable branches that he maintains,
> he added that one additional line to both 3.2 and 3.16 branches. Please
> consider including that additional one line fix for 3.10 stable branch
> also.
>
>
> Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.2.82-rc1 patch:
> [bwh: Backported to 3.2:
> - Adjust context
> - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117565612275&w=2
>
>
> Ben Hutchings said this on his 3.16.37-rc1 patch:
> [bwh: Backported to 3.16:
> - Adjust context
> - Also set the flag in __d_materialise_dentry())]
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147117433412006&w=2
>
>
> Also mentioned by Sasha Levin on 3.18 and 4.1 commits:
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.2+ (and watch out for __d_materialise_dentry())
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146648034410827&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=146647471009771&w=2


Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/dcache.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 9befdcea22fa..11ded5b0b853 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2619,6 +2619,7 @@ static void __d_materialise_dentry(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *anon)
switch_names(dentry, anon);
swap(dentry->d_name.hash, anon->d_name.hash);

+ dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
dentry->d_parent = dentry;
list_del_init(&dentry->d_child);
anon->d_parent = dparent;
--
2.10.0