fix __legitimize_mnt()/mntput() race
__legitimize_mnt() has two problems - one is that in case of success
the check of mount_lock is not ordered wrt preceding increment of
refcount, making it possible to have successful __legitimize_mnt()
on one CPU just before the otherwise final mntpu() on another,
with __legitimize_mnt() not seeing mntput() taking the lock and
mntput() not seeing the increment done by __legitimize_mnt().
Solved by a pair of barriers.
Another is that failure of __legitimize_mnt() on the second
read_seqretry() leaves us with reference that'll need to be
dropped by caller; however, if that races with final mntput()
we can end up with caller dropping rcu_read_lock() and doing
mntput() to release that reference - with the first mntput()
having freed the damn thing just as rcu_read_lock() had been
dropped. Solution: in "do mntput() yourself" failure case
grab mount_lock, check if MNT_DOOMED has been set by racing
final mntput() that has missed our increment and if it has -
undo the increment and treat that as "failure, caller doesn't
need to drop anything" case.
It's not easy to hit - the final mntput() has to come right
after the first read_seqretry() in __legitimize_mnt() *and*
manage to miss the increment done by __legitimize_mnt() before
the second read_seqretry() in there. The things that are almost
impossible to hit on bare hardware are not impossible on SMP
KVM, though...
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: 48a066e72d97 ("RCU'd vsfmounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index d46a951..bd2f4c6 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -659,12 +659,21 @@ int __legitimize_mnt(struct vfsmount *bastard, unsigned seq)
return 0;
mnt = real_mount(bastard);
mnt_add_count(mnt, 1);
+ smp_mb(); // see mntput_no_expire()
if (likely(!read_seqretry(&mount_lock, seq)))
return 0;
if (bastard->mnt_flags & MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT) {
mnt_add_count(mnt, -1);
return 1;
}
+ lock_mount_hash();
+ if (unlikely(bastard->mnt_flags & MNT_DOOMED)) {
+ mnt_add_count(mnt, -1);
+ unlock_mount_hash();
+ return 1;
+ }
+ unlock_mount_hash();
+ /* caller will mntput() */
return -1;
}
@@ -1210,6 +1219,11 @@ static void mntput_no_expire(struct mount *mnt)
return;
}
lock_mount_hash();
+ /*
+ * make sure that if __legitimize_mnt() has not seen us grab
+ * mount_lock, we'll see their refcount increment here.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
mnt_add_count(mnt, -1);
if (mnt_get_count(mnt)) {
rcu_read_unlock();