[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From aa38f4a1fc7fab6341a686f317ae71a5d21e0660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:24:12 -0700
Subject: fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()

commit a2673b6e040663bf16a552f8619e6bde9f4b9acf upstream.

fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with
fsnotify_destroy_marks() so when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() drops
mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and we dereference free
memory in the loop there.

Fix the problem by keeping mark_mutex held in
fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked().  The reason why we drop that mutex is that
we need to call a ->freeing_mark() callback which may acquire mark_mutex
again.  To avoid this and similar lock inversion issues, we move the call
to ->freeing_mark() callback to the kthread destroying the mark.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Reported-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan at samsung.com>
Suggested-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/notify/mark.c | 34 ++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c
index 92e48c7..3e594ce4 100644
--- a/fs/notify/mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/mark.c
@@ -152,31 +152,15 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked(struct fsnotify_mark *mark,
 		BUG();

 	list_del_init(&mark->g_list);
-
 	spin_unlock(&mark->lock);

 	if (inode && (mark->flags & FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_OBJECT_PINNED))
 		iput(inode);
-	/* release lock temporarily */
-	mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);

 	spin_lock(&destroy_lock);
 	list_add(&mark->g_list, &destroy_list);
 	spin_unlock(&destroy_lock);
 	wake_up(&destroy_waitq);
-	/*
-	 * We don't necessarily have a ref on mark from caller so the above destroy
-	 * may have actually freed it, unless this group provides a 'freeing_mark'
-	 * function which must be holding a reference.
-	 */
-
-	/*
-	 * Some groups like to know that marks are being freed.  This is a
-	 * callback to the group function to let it know that this mark
-	 * is being freed.
-	 */
-	if (group->ops->freeing_mark)
-		group->ops->freeing_mark(mark, group);

 	/*
 	 * __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(inode);
@@ -191,8 +175,6 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked(struct fsnotify_mark *mark,
 	 */

 	atomic_dec(&group->num_marks);
-
-	mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 }

 void fsnotify_destroy_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark,
@@ -205,7 +187,10 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark,

 /*
  * Destroy all marks in the given list. The marks must be already detached from
- * the original inode / vfsmount.
+ * the original inode / vfsmount. Note that we can race with
+ * fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags(). However we hold a reference to each
+ * mark so they won't get freed from under us and nobody else touches our
+ * free_list list_head.
  */
 void fsnotify_destroy_marks(struct list_head *to_free)
 {
@@ -406,7 +391,7 @@ struct fsnotify_mark *fsnotify_find_mark(struct hlist_head *head,
 }

 /*
- * clear any marks in a group in which mark->flags & flags is true
+ * Clear any marks in a group in which mark->flags & flags is true.
  */
 void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags(struct fsnotify_group *group,
 					 unsigned int flags)
@@ -460,6 +445,7 @@ static int fsnotify_mark_destroy(void *ignored)
 {
 	struct fsnotify_mark *mark, *next;
 	struct list_head private_destroy_list;
+	struct fsnotify_group *group;

 	for (;;) {
 		spin_lock(&destroy_lock);
@@ -471,6 +457,14 @@ static int fsnotify_mark_destroy(void *ignored)

 		list_for_each_entry_safe(mark, next, &private_destroy_list, g_list) {
 			list_del_init(&mark->g_list);
+			group = mark->group;
+			/*
+			 * Some groups like to know that marks are being freed.
+			 * This is a callback to the group function to let it
+			 * know that this mark is being freed.
+			 */
+			if (group && group->ops->freeing_mark)
+				group->ops->freeing_mark(mark, group);
 			fsnotify_put_mark(mark);
 		}

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