make sure that __dentry_kill() always invalidates d_seq, unhashed or not

commit 4c0d7cd5c8416b1ef41534d19163cb07ffaa03ab upstream.

RCU pathwalk relies upon the assumption that anything that changes
->d_inode of a dentry will invalidate its ->d_seq.  That's almost
true - the one exception is that the final dput() of already unhashed
dentry does *not* touch ->d_seq at all.  Unhashing does, though,
so for anything we'd found by RCU dcache lookup we are fine.
Unfortunately, we can *start* with an unhashed dentry or jump into
it.

We could try and be careful in the (few) places where that could
happen.  Or we could just make the final dput() invalidate the damn
thing, unhashed or not.  The latter is much simpler and easier to
backport, so let's do it that way.

Reported-by: "Dae R. Jeong" <threeearcat@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index ff27f25770f3b453c41630c97747192d39f22d3b..811114b229b1c697ee0213796621c6027f5e792a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -358,14 +358,11 @@ static void dentry_unlink_inode(struct dentry * dentry)
        __releases(dentry->d_inode->i_lock)
 {
        struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
-       bool hashed = !d_unhashed(dentry);
 
-       if (hashed)
-               raw_write_seqcount_begin(&dentry->d_seq);
+       raw_write_seqcount_begin(&dentry->d_seq);
        __d_clear_type_and_inode(dentry);
        hlist_del_init(&dentry->d_u.d_alias);
-       if (hashed)
-               raw_write_seqcount_end(&dentry->d_seq);
+       raw_write_seqcount_end(&dentry->d_seq);
        spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
        spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
        if (!inode->i_nlink)