unfuck proc_sysctl ->d_compare()

a) struct inode is not going to be freed under ->d_compare();
however, the thing PROC_I(inode)->sysctl points to just might.
Fortunately, it's enough to make freeing that sucker delayed,
provided that we don't step on its ->unregistering, clear
the pointer to it in PROC_I(inode) before dropping the reference
and check if it's NULL in ->d_compare().

b) I'm not sure that we *can* walk into NULL inode here (we recheck
dentry->seq between verifying that it's still hashed / fetching
dentry->d_inode and passing it to ->d_compare() and there's no
negative hashed dentries in /proc/sys/*), but if we can walk into
that, we really should not have ->d_compare() return 0 on it!
Said that, I really suspect that this check can be simply killed.
Nick?

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 176ce4c..d6a7ca1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct proc_dir_entry *de;
+	struct ctl_table_header *head;
 
 	truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
 	end_writeback(inode);
@@ -38,8 +39,11 @@ static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	de = PROC_I(inode)->pde;
 	if (de)
 		pde_put(de);
-	if (PROC_I(inode)->sysctl)
-		sysctl_head_put(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl);
+	head = PROC_I(inode)->sysctl;
+	if (head) {
+		rcu_assign_pointer(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl, NULL);
+		sysctl_head_put(head);
+	}
 }
 
 struct vfsmount *proc_mnt;