Smack: fuse mount hang fix

The d_instantiate hook for Smack can hang on the root inode of a
filesystem if the file system code has not really done all the set-up.
Fuse is known to encounter this problem.

This change detects an attempt to instantiate a root inode and addresses
it early in the processing, before any attempt is made to do something
that might hang.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index b5c8f92..4a09293 100644 (file)
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -1880,6 +1880,18 @@ static void smack_d_instantiate(struct dentry *opt_dentry, struct inode *inode)
         */
        final = sbsp->smk_default;
 
+       /*
+        * If this is the root inode the superblock
+        * may be in the process of initialization.
+        * If that is the case use the root value out
+        * of the superblock.
+        */
+       if (opt_dentry->d_parent == opt_dentry) {
+               isp->smk_inode = sbsp->smk_root;
+               isp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_INSTANT;
+               goto unlockandout;
+       }
+
        /*
         * This is pretty hackish.
         * Casey says that we shouldn't have to do