Re: [PATCH] VFS: Add back check for !inode in walk_component()

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 07 2015 - 17:48:06 EST


On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:33:21PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2015 19:43:43 +0100
> Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Actually, could you try the following on top of -rc2?
>
> Gives me the following on boot up:

Gah... Sorry, I'm an idiot - *path is left uninitialized in that
case. Fixed. Could you see if that works?

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 4a8d998b..2c8b94e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1415,6 +1415,7 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd,
*/
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
unsigned seq;
+ bool negative;
dentry = __d_lookup_rcu(parent, &nd->last, &seq);
if (!dentry)
goto unlazy;
@@ -1424,8 +1425,11 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd,
* the dentry name information from lookup.
*/
*inode = dentry->d_inode;
+ negative = d_is_negative(dentry);
if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, seq))
return -ECHILD;
+ if (negative)
+ return -ENOENT;

/*
* This sequence count validates that the parent had no
@@ -1472,6 +1476,10 @@ unlazy:
goto need_lookup;
}

+ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(dentry))) {
+ dput(dentry);
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
path->mnt = mnt;
path->dentry = dentry;
err = follow_managed(path, nd->flags);
@@ -1583,10 +1591,10 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
goto out_err;

inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
+ err = -ENOENT;
+ if (d_is_negative(path->dentry))
+ goto out_path_put;
}
- err = -ENOENT;
- if (d_is_negative(path->dentry))
- goto out_path_put;

if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
@@ -3036,14 +3044,13 @@ retry_lookup:

BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU);
inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
-finish_lookup:
- /* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */
error = -ENOENT;
if (d_is_negative(path->dentry)) {
path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
goto out;
}
-
+finish_lookup:
+ /* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */
if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok)) {
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
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