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authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>2011-06-16 15:10:06 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-06-16 11:28:16 -0400
commit8aef18845266f5c05904c610088f2d1ed58f6be3 (patch)
treefbdecafcd5e5d15445af18119cc8ee2e9b2cb850 /fs/namei.c
parent50338b889dc504c69e0cb316ac92d1b9e51f3c8a (diff)
VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down] If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up. The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt with the new mountpoint vfsmount. During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know this. The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before calling do_add_mount(). However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing. We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does. The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed. follow_managed() and follow_automount() keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed path->mnt. That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint and a couple of mount --move. The thing is, we don't need to make that assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed. The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int pid, ws; struct stat buf; pid = fork(); stat(argv[1], &buf); if (pid > 0) wait(&ws); return 0; } and the following procedure: (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a subdirectory. For instance, I can mount / from my server: mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as being a mountpoint. This will cause the automount code to be triggered. !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!! (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two simultaneous automount requests: /tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile (3) Unmount the automounted submount: umount /mnt/data (4) Unmount the original mount: umount /mnt At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the following: BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12] Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace: [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs] [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs] [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b as do_umount() is inlined. However, you can see release_mounts() in there. Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to trigger this bug. Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c24
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 6301963b161f..9e425e7e6c8f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -812,6 +812,11 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
if (!mnt) /* mount collision */
return 0;
+ if (!*need_mntput) {
+ /* lock_mount() may release path->mnt on error */
+ mntget(path->mnt);
+ *need_mntput = true;
+ }
err = finish_automount(mnt, path);
switch (err) {
@@ -819,12 +824,9 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
/* Someone else made a mount here whilst we were busy */
return 0;
case 0:
- dput(path->dentry);
- if (*need_mntput)
- mntput(path->mnt);
+ path_put(path);
path->mnt = mnt;
path->dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root);
- *need_mntput = true;
return 0;
default:
return err;
@@ -844,9 +846,10 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
*/
static int follow_managed(struct path *path, unsigned flags)
{
+ struct vfsmount *mnt = path->mnt; /* held by caller, must be left alone */
unsigned managed;
bool need_mntput = false;
- int ret;
+ int ret = 0;
/* Given that we're not holding a lock here, we retain the value in a
* local variable for each dentry as we look at it so that we don't see
@@ -861,7 +864,7 @@ static int follow_managed(struct path *path, unsigned flags)
BUG_ON(!path->dentry->d_op->d_manage);
ret = path->dentry->d_op->d_manage(path->dentry, false);
if (ret < 0)
- return ret == -EISDIR ? 0 : ret;
+ break;
}
/* Transit to a mounted filesystem. */
@@ -887,14 +890,19 @@ static int follow_managed(struct path *path, unsigned flags)
if (managed & DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT) {
ret = follow_automount(path, flags, &need_mntput);
if (ret < 0)
- return ret == -EISDIR ? 0 : ret;
+ break;
continue;
}
/* We didn't change the current path point */
break;
}
- return 0;
+
+ if (need_mntput && path->mnt == mnt)
+ mntput(path->mnt);
+ if (ret == -EISDIR)
+ ret = 0;
+ return ret;
}
int follow_down_one(struct path *path)