[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt21.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 9b0769e370f2431026bcb18dce3d821adbbdf2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:47:07 -0400
Subject: RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting
 something

commit 3cab989afd8d8d1bc3d99fef0e7ed87c31e7b647 upstream.

Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find
a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount.
That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory
(which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_
manage to bind a symlink on top of something.  And in such cases we end up
with excessive mntput().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/namei.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index ddb6721..f804083 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1537,7 +1537,8 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,

 	if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
 		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-			if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
+			if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
+				     unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
 				err = -ECHILD;
 				goto out_err;
 			}
@@ -2992,7 +2993,8 @@ finish_lookup:

 	if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok)) {
 		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-			if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
+			if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
+				     unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
 				error = -ECHILD;
 				goto out;
 			}
--
1.9.1