fsnotify: fix oops in fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group_flags()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 23:24:12 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 23:39:54 +0000 (16:39 -0700)
commita2673b6e040663bf16a552f8619e6bde9f4b9acf
tree88ccec30ae06241d16a7695b772f0fa5a1c4a053
parent3581d458c39bc5e58ceeeaf51796625bc978d2eb
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>
fs/notify/mark.c