fix __legitimize_mnt()/mntput() race
__legitimize_mnt() has two problems - one is that in case of success the check of mount_lock is not ordered wrt preceding increment of refcount, making it possible to have successful __legitimize_mnt() on one CPU just before the otherwise final mntpu() on another, with __legitimize_mnt() not seeing mntput() taking the lock and mntput() not seeing the increment done by __legitimize_mnt(). Solved by a pair of barriers. Another is that failure of __legitimize_mnt() on the second read_seqretry() leaves us with reference that'll need to be dropped by caller; however, if that races with final mntput() we can end up with caller dropping rcu_read_lock() and doing mntput() to release that reference - with the first mntput() having freed the damn thing just as rcu_read_lock() had been dropped. Solution: in "do mntput() yourself" failure case grab mount_lock, check if MNT_DOOMED has been set by racing final mntput() that has missed our increment and if it has - undo the increment and treat that as "failure, caller doesn't need to drop anything" case. It's not easy to hit - the final mntput() has to come right after the first read_seqretry() in __legitimize_mnt() *and* manage to miss the increment done by __legitimize_mnt() before the second read_seqretry() in there. The things that are almost impossible to hit on bare hardware are not impossible on SMP KVM, though... Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Fixes: 48a066e7 ("RCU'd vsfmounts") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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