From 7a4dec53897ecd3367efb1e12fe8a4edc47dc0e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:05:43 -0400 Subject: Fix sget() race with failing mount If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount. That's fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way. However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding the halfway-created superblock. deactivate_locked_super() called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since we are holding another active reference to it. What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully set up. Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for MS_ACTIVE quite fit. Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport: new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb(). If that flag isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search). Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb" and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there, instead of checking ->s_root as we do now). Signed-off-by: Al Viro Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/namespace.c') diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 88058de59c7..32dcd24bbc9 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_name, char *type_page, if (flags & MS_RDONLY) mnt_flags |= MNT_READONLY; - flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE | + flags &= ~(MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NODEV | MS_ACTIVE | MS_BORN | MS_NOATIME | MS_NODIRATIME | MS_RELATIME| MS_KERNMOUNT | MS_STRICTATIME); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2