This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: lock_parent-needs-to-recheck-if-dentry-got-__dentry_kill-ed-under-it.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 3b821409632ab778d46e807516b457dfa72736ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:47:17 -0500 Subject: lock_parent() needs to recheck if dentry got __dentry_kill'ed under it

From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk

commit 3b821409632ab778d46e807516b457dfa72736ed upstream.

In case when dentry passed to lock_parent() is protected from freeing only by the fact that it's on a shrink list and trylock of parent fails, we could get hit by __dentry_kill() (and subsequent dentry_kill(parent)) between unlocking dentry and locking presumed parent. We need to recheck that dentry is alive once we lock both it and parent *and* postpone rcu_read_unlock() until after that point. Otherwise we could return a pointer to struct dentry that already is rcu-scheduled for freeing, with ->d_lock held on it; caller's subsequent attempt to unlock it can end up with memory corruption.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+, counting backports Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- fs/dcache.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -634,11 +634,16 @@ again: spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); goto again; } - rcu_read_unlock(); - if (parent != dentry) + if (parent != dentry) { spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED); - else + if (unlikely(dentry->d_lockref.count < 0)) { + spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); + parent = NULL; + } + } else { parent = NULL; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); return parent; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk are

queue-4.4/fs-teach-path_connected-to-handle-nfs-filesystems-with-multiple-roots.patch queue-4.4/lock_parent-needs-to-recheck-if-dentry-got-__dentry_kill-ed-under-it.patch