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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2023-11-20 20:02:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2023-11-25 02:54:14 -0500 |
| commit | a8b0026847b8c43445c921ad2c85521c92eb175f (patch) | |
| tree | 39078ede8594fab57ee0486e522655df86cb131f /fs/cachefiles | |
| parent | dbd4540df2b2857a91593754275c02f3e415fc30 (diff) | |
rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
... and fix the directory locking documentation and proof of correctness.
Holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex *almost* prevents ->d_parent changes; the
case where we really don't want it is splicing the root of disconnected
tree to somewhere.
In other words, ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is sufficient to stabilize "X is an
ancestor of Y" only if X and Y are already in the same tree. Otherwise
it can go from false to true, and one can construct a deadlock on that.
Make lock_two_directories() report an error in such case and update the
callers of lock_rename()/lock_rename_child() to handle such errors.
And yes, such conditions are not impossible to create ;-/
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cachefiles')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c index 7bf7a5fcc045..7ade836beb58 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c @@ -305,6 +305,8 @@ try_again: /* do the multiway lock magic */ trap = lock_rename(cache->graveyard, dir); + if (IS_ERR(trap)) + return PTR_ERR(trap); /* do some checks before getting the grave dentry */ if (rep->d_parent != dir || IS_DEADDIR(d_inode(rep))) { |