Re: [PATCH] configfs: fix a race in configfs_lookup()

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 07:08:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> We can't hold a spinlock over inode allocation.  So it would have to be
> something like this:

Check for -ENAMETOOLONG first; easier for analysis that way.

> +			dentry->d_fsdata = configfs_get(sd);
> +			sd->s_dentry = dentry;
> +			spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
>  
> -			found = 1;
> -			err = configfs_attach_attr(sd, dentry);
> -			break;
> +			inode = configfs_create(dentry, mode);
> +			if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
> +				configfs_put(sd);
> +				return ERR_CAST(inode);

Er...  Won't that leave dentry with dangling ->d_fsdata?