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authorJosef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>2010-11-18 20:52:55 -0500
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-03-31 11:58:48 -0700
commit0fce96e0a736b60c49c4a1f8a37be56fe02d02b7 (patch)
tree1e5c68c8e9b0dc502ef1ea0982294aab6e86d094 /fs
parent4214a0da0bdd0a7d11a7b560dfed69617d2a6dab (diff)
fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2
commit 24ff6663ccfdaf088dfa7acae489cb11ed4f43c4 upstream. While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following denial type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772 comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the security_d_instantiate. Usually we are protected from getting a hashed dentry that hasn't yet run security_d_instantiate() by the parent's i_mutex, but obviously this isn't an option there, so in order to deal with the case that a second thread comes in and finds our new dentry before we get to run security_d_instantiate(), we go ahead and call it if we find a dentry already. Eric assures me that this is ok as the code checks to see if the dentry has been initialized already so calling security_d_instantiate() against the same dentry multiple times is ok. With this patch I'm no longer getting errant -EACCESS values. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 86d4db15473e..c1f86c734540 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1186,9 +1186,12 @@ struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode)
spin_unlock(&tmp->d_lock);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+ security_d_instantiate(tmp, inode);
return tmp;
out_iput:
+ if (res && !IS_ERR(res))
+ security_d_instantiate(res, inode);
iput(inode);
return res;
}