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__follow_mount_rcu(): verify that mount_lock remains unchanged
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 4 Jul 2022 21:26:29 +0000 (17:26 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:24:19 +0000 (14:24 +0200)
commit1fbd6fd4932809682b50b554ff2ab3c6d3aadc17
treeefb9d45c032c03fe9298d4994a5eaf19a72a25be
parentbeda41a9ec5793244b6515cc4d7d519793d07644
__follow_mount_rcu(): verify that mount_lock remains unchanged

commit bcbb7f77b7e083544c7fca95551a4c6c36d7a47d upstream.

Validate mount_lock seqcount as soon as we cross into mount in RCU
mode.  Sure, ->mnt_root is pinned and will remain so until we
do rcu_read_unlock() anyway, and we will eventually fail to unlazy if
the mount_lock had been touched, but we might run into a hard error
(e.g. -ENOENT) before trying to unlazy.  And it's possible to end
up with RCU pathwalk racing with rename() and umount() in a way
that would fail with -ENOENT while non-RCU pathwalk would've
succeeded with any timings.

Once upon a time we hadn't needed that, but analysis had been subtle,
brittle and went out of window as soon as RENAME_EXCHANGE had been
added.

It's narrow, hard to hit and won't get you anything other than
stray -ENOENT that could be arranged in much easier way with the
same priveleges, but it's a bug all the same.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
X-sky-is-falling: unlikely
Fixes: e38dd2e5c293 "vfs: add cross-rename"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/namei.c