commit 7e0e953bb0cf649f93277ac8fb67ecbb7f7b04a9
author Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Sat Feb 21 22:16:11 2015 -0500
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Sun Feb 22 11:43:12 2015 -0500
tree 1ba29a05213aefe77827f268624948ad417c984a
parent 0db59e59299f0b67450c5db21f7f316c8fb04e84

procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals

use_pde()/unuse_pde() in ->follow_link()/->put_link() resp.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs/proc/generic.c

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 3309f59..be65b20 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/idr.h>
-#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
@@ -223,17 +222,6 @@
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&proc_inum_lock, flags);
 }
 
-static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
-{
-	nd_set_link(nd, __PDE_DATA(dentry->d_inode));
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-static const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = {
-	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
-	.follow_link	= proc_follow_link,
-};
-
 /*
  * Don't create negative dentries here, return -ENOENT by hand
  * instead.

fs/proc/inode.c

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 13a50a3..7697b66 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/magic.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -393,6 +394,26 @@
 };
 #endif
 
+static void *proc_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	struct proc_dir_entry *pde = PDE(dentry->d_inode);
+	if (unlikely(!use_pde(pde)))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	nd_set_link(nd, pde->data);
+	return pde;
+}
+
+static void proc_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd, void *p)
+{
+	unuse_pde(p);
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations = {
+	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
+	.follow_link	= proc_follow_link,
+	.put_link	= proc_put_link,
+};
+
 struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(sb);

fs/proc/internal.h

diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h
index 6fcdba5..c835b94 100644
--- a/fs/proc/internal.h
+++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@
 	int closing;
 	struct completion *c;
 };
+extern const struct inode_operations proc_link_inode_operations;
 
 extern const struct inode_operations proc_pid_link_inode_operations;