[PATCH 4.6 59/96] namespace: update event counter when umounting a deleted dentry

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 08 2016 - 15:29:26 EST


4.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrey Ulanov <andreyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit e06b933e6ded42384164d28a2060b7f89243b895 upstream.

- m_start() in fs/namespace.c expects that ns->event is incremented each
time a mount added or removed from ns->list.
- umount_tree() removes items from the list but does not increment event
counter, expecting that it's done before the function is called.
- There are some codepaths that call umount_tree() without updating
"event" counter. e.g. from __detach_mounts().
- When this happens m_start may reuse a cached mount structure that no
longer belongs to ns->list (i.e. use after free which usually leads
to infinite loop).

This change fixes the above problem by incrementing global event counter
before invoking umount_tree().

Change-Id: I622c8e84dcb9fb63542372c5dbf0178ee86bb589
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ulanov <andreyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/namespace.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,7 @@ void __detach_mounts(struct dentry *dent
goto out_unlock;

lock_mount_hash();
+ event++;
while (!hlist_empty(&mp->m_list)) {
mnt = hlist_entry(mp->m_list.first, struct mount, mnt_mp_list);
if (mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_UMOUNT) {