Revision 8aef18845266f5c05904c610088f2d1ed58f6be3 authored by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 14:10:06 UTC, committed by Al Viro on 16 June 2011, 15:28:16 UTC
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down]

If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the
same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few
references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up.

The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the
mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on
the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt
with the new mountpoint vfsmount.

During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is
the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know
this.

The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before
calling do_add_mount().  However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then
left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing.
We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what
we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does.

The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be
grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed.  follow_managed() and follow_automount()
keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll
happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed
path->mnt.  That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of
racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint
and a couple of mount --move.  The thing is, we don't need to make that
assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check
if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed.

The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		int pid, ws;
		struct stat buf;
		pid = fork();
		stat(argv[1], &buf);
		if (pid > 0) wait(&ws);
		return 0;
	}

and the following procedure:

 (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a
     subdirectory.  For instance, I can mount / from my server:

	mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r

     On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see
     a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as
     being a mountpoint.  This will cause the automount code to be triggered.

     !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!!

 (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two
     simultaneous automount requests:

	/tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile

 (3) Unmount the automounted submount:

	umount /mnt/data

 (4) Unmount the original mount:

	umount /mnt

     At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the
     following:

	BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12]

Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the
mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final
mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace:

 [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82
 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b
 [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e
 [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83
 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b
 [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199
 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44
 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf
 [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba
 [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f
 [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

as do_umount() is inlined.  However, you can see release_mounts() in there.

Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to
trigger this bug.

Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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i8042.h
#ifndef _I8042_H
#define _I8042_H


/*
 *  Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Vojtech Pavlik
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation.
 */

/*
 * Arch-dependent inline functions and defines.
 */

#if defined(CONFIG_MACH_JAZZ)
#include "i8042-jazzio.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_SGI_HAS_I8042)
#include "i8042-ip22io.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_SNI_RM)
#include "i8042-snirm.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC)
#include "i8042-ppcio.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_SPARC)
#include "i8042-sparcio.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_X86) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
#include "i8042-x86ia64io.h"
#elif defined(CONFIG_UNICORE32)
#include "i8042-unicore32io.h"
#else
#include "i8042-io.h"
#endif

/*
 * This is in 50us units, the time we wait for the i8042 to react. This
 * has to be long enough for the i8042 itself to timeout on sending a byte
 * to a non-existent mouse.
 */

#define I8042_CTL_TIMEOUT	10000

/*
 * Status register bits.
 */

#define I8042_STR_PARITY	0x80
#define I8042_STR_TIMEOUT	0x40
#define I8042_STR_AUXDATA	0x20
#define I8042_STR_KEYLOCK	0x10
#define I8042_STR_CMDDAT	0x08
#define I8042_STR_MUXERR	0x04
#define I8042_STR_IBF		0x02
#define	I8042_STR_OBF		0x01

/*
 * Control register bits.
 */

#define I8042_CTR_KBDINT	0x01
#define I8042_CTR_AUXINT	0x02
#define I8042_CTR_IGNKEYLOCK	0x08
#define I8042_CTR_KBDDIS	0x10
#define I8042_CTR_AUXDIS	0x20
#define I8042_CTR_XLATE		0x40

/*
 * Return codes.
 */

#define I8042_RET_CTL_TEST	0x55

/*
 * Expected maximum internal i8042 buffer size. This is used for flushing
 * the i8042 buffers.
 */

#define I8042_BUFFER_SIZE	16

/*
 * Number of AUX ports on controllers supporting active multiplexing
 * specification
 */

#define I8042_NUM_MUX_PORTS	4

/*
 * Debug.
 */

#ifdef DEBUG
static unsigned long i8042_start_time;
#define dbg_init() do { i8042_start_time = jiffies; } while (0)
#define dbg(format, arg...)							\
	do {									\
		if (i8042_debug)						\
			printk(KERN_DEBUG KBUILD_MODNAME ": [%d] " format,	\
			       (int) (jiffies - i8042_start_time), ##arg);	\
	} while (0)
#else
#define dbg_init() do { } while (0)
#define dbg(format, arg...)							\
	do {									\
		if (0)								\
			printk(KERN_DEBUG pr_fmt(format), ##arg);		\
	} while (0)
#endif

#endif /* _I8042_H */
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