ovl: fix dentry reference leak
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:45:22 +0000 (11:45 +0100)
committerMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:56:20 +0000 (15:56 +0200)
In ovl_copy_up_locked(), newdentry is leaked if the function exits through
out_cleanup as this just to out after calling ovl_cleanup() - which doesn't
actually release the ref on newdentry.

The out_cleanup segment should instead exit through out2 as certainly
newdentry leaks - and possibly upper does also, though this isn't caught
given the catch of newdentry.

Without this fix, something like the following is seen:

BUG: Dentry ffff880023e9eb20{i=f861,n=#ffff880023e82d90} still in use (1) [unmount of tmpfs tmpfs]
BUG: Dentry ffff880023ece640{i=0,n=bigfile}  still in use (1) [unmount of tmpfs tmpfs]

when unmounting the upper layer after an error occurred in copyup.

An error can be induced by creating a big file in a lower layer with
something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/lower/a/bigfile bs=65536 count=1 seek=$((0xf000))

to create a large file (4.1G).  Overlay an upper layer that is too small
(on tmpfs might do) and then induce a copy up by opening it writably.

Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c

index b1990ac8fa0975c5494a832ce87e6cf693981845..871fcb67be9741f2aab81f3d6552306dedf4c967 100644 (file)
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ out:
 
 out_cleanup:
        ovl_cleanup(wdir, newdentry);
-       goto out;
+       goto out2;
 }
 
 /*