Safer nfsd_cross_mnt()

AFAICS, we have a subtle bug there: if we have crossed mountpoint
*and* it got mount --move'd away, we'll be holding only one
reference to fs containing dentry - exp->ex_path.mnt.  IOW, we
ought to dput() before exp_put().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index ab93fcfef25..46e6bd2d4f0 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -116,10 +116,15 @@ nfsd_cross_mnt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct dentry **dpp,
 	}
 	if ((exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_CROSSMOUNT) || EX_NOHIDE(exp2)) {
 		/* successfully crossed mount point */
-		exp_put(exp);
-		*expp = exp2;
+		/*
+		 * This is subtle: dentry is *not* under mnt at this point.
+		 * The only reason we are safe is that original mnt is pinned
+		 * down by exp, so we should dput before putting exp.
+		 */
 		dput(dentry);
 		*dpp = mounts;
+		exp_put(exp);
+		*expp = exp2;
 	} else {
 		exp_put(exp2);
 		dput(mounts);