@@ -293,16 +293,36 @@ void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags(struct fsnotify_group *group,
unsigned int flags)
{
struct fsnotify_mark *lmark, *mark;
+ LIST_HEAD(to_free);
+ /*
+ * We have to be really careful here. Anytime we drop mark_mutex, e.g.
+ * fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode() can come and free marks. Even in our
+ * to_free list so we have to use mark_mutex even when accessing that
+ * list. And freeing mark requires us to drop mark_mutex. So we can
+ * reliably free only the first mark in the list. That's why we first
+ * move marks to free to to_free list in one go and then free marks in
+ * to_free list one by one.
+ */
mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
list_for_each_entry_safe(mark, lmark, &group->marks_list, g_list) {
- if (mark->flags & flags) {
- fsnotify_get_mark(mark);
- fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked(mark, group);
- fsnotify_put_mark(mark);
- }
+ if (mark->flags & flags)
+ list_move(&mark->g_list, &to_free);
}
mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
+
+ while (1) {
+ mutex_lock_nested(&group->mark_mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
+ if (list_empty(&to_free)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
+ break;
+ }
+ mark = list_first_entry(&to_free, struct fsnotify_mark, g_list);
+ fsnotify_get_mark(mark);
+ fsnotify_destroy_mark_locked(mark, group);
+ mutex_unlock(&group->mark_mutex);
+ fsnotify_put_mark(mark);
+ }
}
/*
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt27. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From a4910b81c587dacea46d495018aa545aac8e9d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:46:42 -0700 Subject: fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() commit 8f2f3eb59dff4ec538de55f2e0592fec85966aab upstream. fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags() can race with fsnotify_destroy_marks() so that 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 thus the next entry pointer we have cached may become stale and we dereference free memory. Fix the problem by first moving marks to free to a special private list and then always free the first entry in the special list. This method is safe even when entries from the list can disappear once we drop the lock. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reported-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Cc: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- fs/notify/mark.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1