Safer nfsd_cross_mnt()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:32:31 +0000 (02:32 -0400)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:01:15 +0000 (23:01 -0400)
AFAICS, we have a subtle bug there: if we have crossed mountpoint
*and* it got mount --move'd away, we'll be holding only one
reference to fs containing dentry - exp->ex_path.mnt.  IOW, we
ought to dput() before exp_put().

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

index ab93fcfef254928360073e3452c707d1653b99c8..46e6bd2d4f070101673ac0c52c9f3d7a13f36426 100644 (file)
@@ -116,10 +116,15 @@ nfsd_cross_mnt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct dentry **dpp,
        }
        if ((exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_CROSSMOUNT) || EX_NOHIDE(exp2)) {
                /* successfully crossed mount point */
-               exp_put(exp);
-               *expp = exp2;
+               /*
+                * This is subtle: dentry is *not* under mnt at this point.
+                * The only reason we are safe is that original mnt is pinned
+                * down by exp, so we should dput before putting exp.
+                */
                dput(dentry);
                *dpp = mounts;
+               exp_put(exp);
+               *expp = exp2;
        } else {
                exp_put(exp2);
                dput(mounts);