sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:09:07 +0000 (13:09 +0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:43:55 +0000 (09:43 -0700)
commite5bcac61472ca627241b394d439decd00bba3aea
tree0b95f76e13777099dcedaf7483e93d174b9f75f5
parent47610d98e884dd47fd874469a105797e1a9f5ed0
sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change

When we change the namespace tag of a sysfs entry, the associated dentry
is still kept around. readdir() will work correctly and not display the
old entries, but open() will still succeed, so will reads and writes.

This will no longer happen if sysfs is remounted, hinting that this is a
cache-related problem.

I am using the following sequence to demonstrate that:

shell1:
ip link add type veth
unshare -nm

shell2:
ip link set veth1 <pid_of_shell_1>
cat /sys/devices/virtual/net/veth1/ifindex

Before that patch, this will succeed (fail to fail). After it, it will
correctly return an error. Differently from a normal rename, which we
handle fine, changing the object namespace will keep it's path intact.
So this check seems necessary as well.

[ v2: get type from parent, as suggested by Eric Biederman ]

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/sysfs/dir.c