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Revision 50338b889dc504c69e0cb316ac92d1b9e51f3c8a authored by Török Edwin on 15 June 2011, 21:06:14 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 15:27:39 UTC 
fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d65d
 
Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d65df8599fdbae73be9cec4ceed274db53 causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.

The buggy part of the patch is this:
	struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
-               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
-                       goto slashes;
                inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode)
-                       ihold(inode);
+               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+                       goto slashes;
+               ihold(inode)
...
	if (inode)
		iput(inode);	/* truncate the inode here */

If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.

Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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fips.c 
/*
 * FIPS 200 support.
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
 * Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
 * any later version.
 *
 */

#include "internal.h"

int fips_enabled;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fips_enabled);

/* Process kernel command-line parameter at boot time. fips=0 or fips=1 */
static int fips_enable(char *str)
{
	fips_enabled = !!simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0);
	printk(KERN_INFO "fips mode: %s\n",
		fips_enabled ? "enabled" : "disabled");
	return 1;
}

__setup("fips=", fips_enable);
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