From 7a4dec53897ecd3367efb1e12fe8a4edc47dc0e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:05:43 -0400 Subject: Fix sget() race with failing mount If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount. That's fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way. However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding the halfway-created superblock. deactivate_locked_super() called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since we are holding another active reference to it. What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully set up. Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for MS_ACTIVE quite fit. Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport: new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb(). If that flag isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search). Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb" and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there, instead of checking ->s_root as we do now). Signed-off-by: Al Viro Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/super.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/super.c') diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 3479ca6..bd9eea4 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -305,8 +305,13 @@ retry: if (s) { up_write(&s->s_umount); destroy_super(s); + s = NULL; } down_write(&old->s_umount); + if (unlikely(!(old->s_flags & MS_BORN))) { + deactivate_locked_super(old); + goto retry; + } return old; } } @@ -918,6 +923,7 @@ vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void goto out_free_secdata; BUG_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb); WARN_ON(!mnt->mnt_sb->s_bdi); + mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags |= MS_BORN; error = security_sb_kern_mount(mnt->mnt_sb, flags, secdata); if (error) -- cgit v1.1