From dfef6dcd35cb4a251f6322ca9b2c06f0bb1aa1f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 01:25:28 -0500 Subject: 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 --- fs/proc/inode.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/proc/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c index 176ce4cda68..d6a7ca1fdac 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; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258