[PATCH v4 01/21] fs: fix a posible leak of allocated superblock

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Tue Apr 26 12:36:14 PDT 2016


From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>

We probably need to fix superblock leak in patch (v4 "fs: Add user
namesapace member to struct super_block"):

Imagine posible code path in sget_userns: we iterate through
type->fs_supers and do not find suitable sb, we drop sb_lock to
allocate s and go to retry. After we dropped sb_lock some other
task from different userns takes sb_lock, it is already in retry
stage and has s allocated, so it puts its s in type->fs_supers
list. So in retry we will find these sb in list and check it has
a different userns, and finally we will return without freeing s.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
---
 fs/super.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 829841e0ae7e..092a7828442e 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ retry:
 				continue;
 			if (user_ns != old->s_user_ns) {
 				spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+				if (s) {
+					up_write(&s->s_umount);
+					destroy_super(s);
+				}
 				return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
 			}
 			if (!grab_super(old))
-- 
2.7.4




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