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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2008-07-02 21:30:15 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-08-06 10:11:08 -0700
commitbd54faa88024e78ed62a675e39a0d59c46946546 (patch)
tree1c0bcbd005a8987a27bf2cf3f73132ca48ebd49c
parentedf237c35c4c94bdce7616b3c061bda292bec979 (diff)
vfs: fix lookup on deleted directory
commit d70b67c8bc72ee23b55381bd6a884f4796692f77 upstream Lookup can install a child dentry for a deleted directory. This keeps the directory dentry alive, and the inode pinned in the cache and on disk, even after all external references have gone away. This isn't a big problem normally, since memory pressure or umount will clear out the directory dentry and its children, releasing the inode. But for UBIFS this causes problems because its orphan area can overflow. Fix this by returning ENOENT for all lookups on a S_DEAD directory before creating a child dentry. Thanks to Zoltan Sogor for noticing this while testing UBIFS, and Artem for the excellent analysis of the problem and testing. Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a16f1ae6081b..a6fdd952274d 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -514,7 +514,14 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name, s
*/
result = d_lookup(parent, name);
if (!result) {
- struct dentry * dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+
+ /* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */
+ result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+ if (IS_DEADDIR(dir))
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);
result = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (dentry) {
result = dir->i_op->lookup(dir, dentry, nd);
@@ -523,6 +530,7 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name, s
else
result = dentry;
}
+out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
return result;
}
@@ -1313,7 +1321,14 @@ static struct dentry *__lookup_hash(struct qstr *name,
dentry = cached_lookup(base, name, nd);
if (!dentry) {
- struct dentry *new = d_alloc(base, name);
+ struct dentry *new;
+
+ /* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */
+ dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+ if (IS_DEADDIR(inode))
+ goto out;
+
+ new = d_alloc(base, name);
dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (!new)
goto out;