ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the
S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the
EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race
where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief
window of time.
Reported-by: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 6e39895..24bfd7f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <linux/aio.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include "ext4_jbd2.h"
#include "xattr.h"
@@ -3921,18 +3922,20 @@
void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
{
unsigned int flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags;
+ unsigned int new_fl = 0;
- inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
if (flags & EXT4_SYNC_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC;
+ new_fl |= S_SYNC;
if (flags & EXT4_APPEND_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_APPEND;
+ new_fl |= S_APPEND;
if (flags & EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE;
+ new_fl |= S_IMMUTABLE;
if (flags & EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;
+ new_fl |= S_NOATIME;
if (flags & EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL)
- inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ new_fl |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ set_mask_bits(&inode->i_flags,
+ S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC, new_fl);
}
/* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags */
diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
index abc9ca7..be5fd38 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -196,6 +196,21 @@
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifndef set_mask_bits
+#define set_mask_bits(ptr, _mask, _bits) \
+({ \
+ const typeof(*ptr) mask = (_mask), bits = (_bits); \
+ typeof(*ptr) old, new; \
+ \
+ do { \
+ old = ACCESS_ONCE(*ptr); \
+ new = (old & ~mask) | bits; \
+ } while (cmpxchg(ptr, old, new) != old); \
+ \
+ new; \
+})
+#endif
+
#ifndef find_last_bit
/**
* find_last_bit - find the last set bit in a memory region