fix deadlock in pivot_root()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:29:36 +0000 (08:29 -0400)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:54:59 +0000 (08:54 -0400)
Don't hold vfsmount_lock over the loop traversing ->mnt_parent;
do check_mnt(new.mnt) under namespace_sem instead; combined with
namespace_sem held over all that code it'll guarantee the stability
of ->mnt_parent chain all the way to the root.

Doing check_mnt() outside of namespace_sem in case of pivot_root()
is wrong anyway.

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

index 453529f..46cc26b 100644 (file)
@@ -2569,9 +2569,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pivot_root, const char __user *, new_root,
        error = user_path_dir(new_root, &new);
        if (error)
                goto out0;
-       error = -EINVAL;
-       if (!check_mnt(new.mnt))
-               goto out1;
 
        error = user_path_dir(put_old, &old);
        if (error)
@@ -2591,7 +2588,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pivot_root, const char __user *, new_root,
                IS_MNT_SHARED(new.mnt->mnt_parent) ||
                IS_MNT_SHARED(root.mnt->mnt_parent))
                goto out2;
-       if (!check_mnt(root.mnt))
+       if (!check_mnt(root.mnt) || !check_mnt(new.mnt))
                goto out2;
        error = -ENOENT;
        if (cant_mount(old.dentry))
@@ -2615,19 +2612,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pivot_root, const char __user *, new_root,
                goto out2; /* not attached */
        /* make sure we can reach put_old from new_root */
        tmp = old.mnt;
-       br_write_lock(vfsmount_lock);
        if (tmp != new.mnt) {
                for (;;) {
                        if (tmp->mnt_parent == tmp)
-                               goto out3; /* already mounted on put_old */
+                               goto out2; /* already mounted on put_old */
                        if (tmp->mnt_parent == new.mnt)
                                break;
                        tmp = tmp->mnt_parent;
                }
                if (!is_subdir(tmp->mnt_mountpoint, new.dentry))
-                       goto out3;
+                       goto out2;
        } else if (!is_subdir(old.dentry, new.dentry))
-               goto out3;
+               goto out2;
+       br_write_lock(vfsmount_lock);
        detach_mnt(new.mnt, &parent_path);
        detach_mnt(root.mnt, &root_parent);
        /* mount old root on put_old */
@@ -2650,9 +2647,6 @@ out1:
        path_put(&new);
 out0:
        return error;
-out3:
-       br_write_unlock(vfsmount_lock);
-       goto out2;
 }
 
 static void __init init_mount_tree(void)