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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-01-03 14:18:43 +1300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-19 20:17:21 +0100
commit4a6716f165179679ee418b79445aa4031118ecd1 (patch)
tree7758d19ab9320ad2855815a51e8290793992052a /drivers/tty
parent836fd7c9e6e6bf18d8d0ced59019455de648cd31 (diff)
mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock
commit 3895dbf8985f656675b5bde610723a29cbce3fa7 upstream. Protecting the mountpoint hashtable with namespace_sem was sufficient until a call to umount_mnt was added to mntput_no_expire. At which point it became possible for multiple calls of put_mountpoint on the same hash chain to happen on the same time. Kristen Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> reported: > This can cause a panic when simultaneous callers of put_mountpoint > attempt to free the same mountpoint. This occurs because some callers > hold the mount_hash_lock, while others hold the namespace lock. Some > even hold both. > > In this submitter's case, the panic manifested itself as a GP fault in > put_mountpoint() when it called hlist_del() and attempted to dereference > a m_hash.pprev that had been poisioned by another thread. Al Viro observed that the simple fix is to switch from using the namespace_sem to the mount_lock to protect the mountpoint hash table. I have taken Al's suggested patch moved put_mountpoint in pivot_root (instead of taking mount_lock an additional time), and have replaced new_mountpoint with get_mountpoint a function that does the hash table lookup and addition under the mount_lock. The introduction of get_mounptoint ensures that only the mount_lock is needed to manipulate the mountpoint hashtable. d_set_mounted is modified to only set DCACHE_MOUNTED if it is not already set. This allows get_mountpoint to use the setting of DCACHE_MOUNTED to ensure adding a struct mountpoint for a dentry happens exactly once. Fixes: ce07d891a089 ("mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts") Reported-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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