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nfs: make nfs_set_verifier() safe for use in RCU pathwalk

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nfs_set_verifier() relies upon dentry being pinned; if that's
the case, grabbing ->d_lock stabilizes ->d_parent and guarantees
that ->d_parent points to a positive dentry.  For something
we'd run into in RCU mode that is *not* true - dentry might've
been through dentry_kill() just as we grabbed ->d_lock, with
its parent going through the same just as we get to into
nfs_set_verifier_locked().  It might get to detaching inode
(and zeroing ->d_inode) before nfs_set_verifier_locked() gets
to fetching that; we get an oops as the result.

That can happen in nfs{,4} ->d_revalidate(); the call chain in
question is nfs_set_verifier_locked() <- nfs_set_verifier() <-
nfs_lookup_revalidate_delegated() <- nfs{,4}_do_lookup_revalidate().
We have checked that the parent had been positive, but that's
done before we get to nfs_set_verifier() and it's possible for
memory pressure to pick our dentry as eviction candidate by that
time.  If that happens, back-to-back attempts to kill dentry and
its parent are quite normal.  Sure, in case of eviction we'll
fail the ->d_seq check in the caller, but we need to survive
until we return there...

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro 2023-09-27 21:50:25 -04:00
parent 275655d320
commit 10a973fc4f
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -1431,9 +1431,9 @@ static bool nfs_verifier_is_delegated(struct dentry *dentry)
static void nfs_set_verifier_locked(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned long verf)
{
struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
struct inode *dir = d_inode(dentry->d_parent);
struct inode *dir = d_inode_rcu(dentry->d_parent);
if (!nfs_verify_change_attribute(dir, verf))
if (!dir || !nfs_verify_change_attribute(dir, verf))
return;
if (inode && NFS_PROTO(inode)->have_delegation(inode, FMODE_READ))
nfs_set_verifier_delegated(&verf);