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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>2007-05-08 00:25:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:01 -0700
commit7695650a924a6859910c8c19dfa43b4d08224d66 (patch)
tree5947c3e1b24600b6440468c11b30feeef31eee2c /fs/proc/generic.c
parent79c0b2df79eb56fc71e54c75cd7fb3acf84370f9 (diff)
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Fix race between proc_get_inode() and remove_proc_entry()
proc_lookup remove_proc_entry =========== ================= lock_kernel(); spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [find PDE with refcount 0] spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock); [find PDE with refcount 0] [check refcount and free PDE] spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock); proc_get_inode: de_get(de); /* boom */ Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/generic.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/generic.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 775fb21..22a08ff 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nam
if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, de->name, de->namelen)) {
unsigned int ino = de->low_ino;
+ de_get(de);
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
error = -EINVAL;
inode = proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, ino, de);
@@ -414,6 +415,7 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nam
d_add(dentry, inode);
return NULL;
}
+ de_put(de);
return ERR_PTR(error);
}
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