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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-16 19:56:55 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-16 19:56:55 +0300
commit3abb17e82f08628b59e20d8cbcb55e2204180f69 (patch)
tree890a411ebda28a9b9e6c90520429554a9e7fb95a /fs/namei.c
parent85e2efbb1db9a18d218006706d6e4fbeb0216213 (diff)
downloadlinux-3abb17e82f08628b59e20d8cbcb55e2204180f69.tar.xz
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.c9
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;