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    ovl: relax WARN_ON() for overlapping layers use case · acf3062a
    Amir Goldstein authored
    This nasty little syzbot repro:
    https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=12c7a94f400000
    
    Creates overlay mounts where the same directory is both in upper and lower
    layers. Simplified example:
    
      mkdir foo work
      mount -t overlay none foo -o"lowerdir=.,upperdir=foo,workdir=work"
    
    The repro runs several threads in parallel that attempt to chdir into foo
    and attempt to symlink/rename/exec/mkdir the file bar.
    
    The repro hits a WARN_ON() I placed in ovl_instantiate(), which suggests
    that an overlay inode already exists in cache and is hashed by the pointer
    of the real upper dentry that ovl_create_real() has just created. At the
    point of the WARN_ON(), for overlay dir inode lock is held and upper dir
    inode lock, so at first, I did not see how this was possible.
    
    On a closer look, I see that after ovl_create_real(), because of the
    overlapping upper and lower layers, a lookup by another thread can find the
    file foo/bar that was just created in upper layer, at overlay path
    foo/foo/bar and hash the an overlay inode with the new real dentry as lower
    dentry. This is possible because the overlay directory foo/foo is not
    locked and the upper dentry foo/bar is in dcache, so ovl_lookup() can find
    it without taking upper dir inode shared lock.
    
    Overlapping layers is considered a wrong setup which would result in
    unexpected behavior, but it shouldn't crash the kernel and it shouldn't
    trigger WARN_ON() either, so relax this WARN_ON() and leave a pr_warn()
    instead to cover all cases of failure to get an overlay inode.
    
    The error returned from failure to insert new inode to cache with
    inode_insert5() was changed to -EEXIST, to distinguish from the error
    -ENOMEM returned on failure to get/allocate inode with iget5_locked().
    
    Reported-by: syzbot+9c69c282adc4edd2b540@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
    Fixes: 01b39dcc ("ovl: use inode_insert5() to hash a newly...")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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