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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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min_addr.c 
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>

/* amount of vm to protect from userspace access by both DAC and the LSM*/
unsigned long mmap_min_addr;
/* amount of vm to protect from userspace using CAP_SYS_RAWIO (DAC) */
unsigned long dac_mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
/* amount of vm to protect from userspace using the LSM = CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR */

/*
 * Update mmap_min_addr = max(dac_mmap_min_addr, CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR)
 */
static void update_mmap_min_addr(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
	if (dac_mmap_min_addr > CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR)
		mmap_min_addr = dac_mmap_min_addr;
	else
		mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
#else
	mmap_min_addr = dac_mmap_min_addr;
#endif
}

/*
 * sysctl handler which just sets dac_mmap_min_addr = the new value and then
 * calls update_mmap_min_addr() so non MAP_FIXED hints get rounded properly
 */
int mmap_min_addr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
			  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
	int ret;

	if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
		return -EPERM;

	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);

	update_mmap_min_addr();

	return ret;
}

static int __init init_mmap_min_addr(void)
{
	update_mmap_min_addr();

	return 0;
}
pure_initcall(init_mmap_min_addr);
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