fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with fsnotify_destroy_marks() so when fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked() drops mark_mutex, a mark from the list iterated by fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can be freed and we dereference free memory in the loop there. Fix the problem by keeping mark_mutex held in fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked(). The reason why we drop that mutex is that we need to call a ->freeing_mark() callback which may acquire mark_mutex again. To avoid this and similar lock inversion issues, we move the call to ->freeing_mark() callback to the kthread destroying the mark. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Suggested-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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