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  1. 16 Jan, 2011 7 commits
    • David Howells's avatar
      CIFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link() · 01c64fea
      David Howells authored 
      Make CIFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.

[NOTE: THIS IS UNTESTED!]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      01c64fea
    • David Howells's avatar
      NFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link() · 36d43a43
      David Howells authored 
      Make NFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      36d43a43
    • David Howells's avatar
      AFS: Use d_automount() rather than abusing follow_link() · d18610b0
      David Howells authored 
      Make AFS use the new d_automount() dentry operation rather than abusing
follow_link() on directories.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      d18610b0
    • David Howells's avatar
      Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount · 6f45b656
      David Howells authored 
      Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automounting of automount
point directories.  This can be used by fstatat() users to permit the
gathering of attributes on an automount point and also prevent
mass-automounting of a directory of automount points by ls.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      6f45b656
    • David Howells's avatar
      Add a dentry op to allow processes to be held during pathwalk transit · cc53ce53
      David Howells authored 
      Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
during a pathwalk.  The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).

The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
directory.  This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
or mounted upon it.

The ->d_manage() dentry operation:

	int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);

takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.

It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
-EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
the user.

->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
and no other locks held, so it may sleep.  However, if mounting_here is true,
it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.

Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
automount upon it.

follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).

A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
d_automount()).  The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate.  It
also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
(with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage().  follow_down()
ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.

__follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
sleep.  It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
that determine whether to abort or not itself.  That would allow the autofs
daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.

Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
invoked.  It can always be set again when necessary.

==========================
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
==========================

Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
with i_mutex held.

autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it.  This
means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
before it calls the daemon.

The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
expired and needs cleaning up:

	mkdir         S ffffffff8014e05a     0 32580  24956
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff885371fd>] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
	 [<ffffffff80127f7d>] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
	 [<ffffffff8009fdcf>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffff88537be6>] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
	 [<ffffffff88535cfc>] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
	 [<ffffffff80036d96>] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
	 [<ffffffff80057a2f>] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
	 [<ffffffff800e6e31>] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4

versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:

	automount     D ffffffff8014e05a     0 32581      1              32561
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff80063c3f>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
	 [<ffffffff8000ccf1>] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
	 [<ffffffff80063c89>] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
	 [<ffffffff800e6d55>] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
	 [<ffffffff8005d229>] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
	 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0

which means that the system is deadlocked.

This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
d_automount().
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      cc53ce53
    • David Howells's avatar
      Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link() · 9875cf80
      David Howells authored 
      Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      9875cf80
    • Al Viro's avatar
      do_lookup() fix · 1a8edf40
      Al Viro authored 
      do_lookup() has a path leading from LOOKUP_RCU case to non-RCU
crossing of mountpoints, which breaks things badly.  If we
hit need_revalidate: and do nothing in there, we need to come
back into LOOKUP_RCU half of things, not to done: in non-RCU
one.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      1a8edf40
  3. 14 Jan, 2011 33 commits
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