tmpfs: allow decoding a file handle of an unlinked file
authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:07:15 +0000 (17:07 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:34:36 +0000 (17:34 -0700)
commit12ba780d64f6c96d40de9c4d1468fb732e64be4c
treee2761c1591c03a7268632f05c04e07568b01e58c
parent88484826bc67844eeae1855ebe32cce9edd937c9
tmpfs: allow decoding a file handle of an unlinked file

tmpfs uses the helper d_find_alias() to find a dentry from a decoded
inode, but d_find_alias() skips unhashed dentries, so unlinked files
cannot be decoded from a file handle.

This can be reproduced using xfstests test program open_by_handle:

  $ open_by handle -c /tmp/testdir
  $ open_by_handle -dk /tmp/testdir
  open_by_handle(/tmp/testdir/file000000) returned 116 incorrectly on an unlinked open file!

To fix this, if d_find_alias() can't find a hashed alias, call
d_find_any_alias() to return an unhashed one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOQ4uxg+qSLP0KwdW+h1tcPqOCQd+_pGZVXiePQB1TXCMBMctQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/shmem.c