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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-02-16 08:56:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-02-16 08:56:55 -0800 |
| commit | 3abb17e82f08628b59e20d8cbcb55e2204180f69 (patch) | |
| tree | 890a411ebda28a9b9e6c90520429554a9e7fb95a /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | 85e2efbb1db9a18d218006706d6e4fbeb0216213 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3abb17e82f08628b59e20d8cbcb55e2204180f69.tar.bz2 | |
vfs: fix BUG_ON() in fs/namei.c:1461
When Al moved the nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu_maybe() call into the
do_follow_link function in commit 844a391799c2 ("nothing in
do_follow_link() is going to see RCU"), he mistakenly left the
BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
behind. Which would otherwise be ok, but that BUG_ON() really needs to
be _after_ dropping RCU, since the dentry isn't necessarily stable
otherwise.
So complete the code movement in that commit, and move the BUG_ON() into
do_follow_link() too. This means that we need to pass in 'inode' as an
argument (just for this one use), but that's a small thing. And
eventually we may be confident enough in our path lookup that we can
just remove the BUG_ON() and the unnecessary inode argument.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 9e701e28a329..0087cf9c2c6b 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ __do_follow_link(const struct path *link, struct nameidata *nd, void **p) * Without that kind of total limit, nasty chains of consecutive * symlinks can cause almost arbitrarily long lookups. */ -static inline int do_follow_link(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) +static inline int do_follow_link(struct inode *inode, struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) { void *cookie; int err = -ELOOP; @@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ static inline int do_follow_link(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) /* We drop rcu-walk here */ if (nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu_maybe(nd, path->dentry)) return -ECHILD; + BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode); if (current->link_count >= MAX_NESTED_LINKS) goto loop; @@ -1413,8 +1414,7 @@ exec_again: goto out_dput; if (inode->i_op->follow_link) { - BUG_ON(inode != next.dentry->d_inode); - err = do_follow_link(&next, nd); + err = do_follow_link(inode, &next, nd); if (err) goto return_err; nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; @@ -1458,8 +1458,7 @@ last_component: break; if (inode && unlikely(inode->i_op->follow_link) && (lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) { - BUG_ON(inode != next.dentry->d_inode); - err = do_follow_link(&next, nd); + err = do_follow_link(inode, &next, nd); if (err) goto return_err; nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; |