ovl: relax WARN_ON() for overlapping layers use case
commit acf3062a upstream. 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: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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