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ovl: avoid deadlock on directory ioctl
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The function ovl_dir_real_file() currently uses the inode lock to serialize
writes to the od->upperfile field.

However, this function will get called by ovl_ioctl_set_flags(), which
utilizes the inode lock too.  In this case ovl_dir_real_file() will try to
claim a lock that is owned by a function in its call stack, which won't get
released before ovl_dir_real_file() returns.

Fix by replacing the open coded compare and exchange by an explicit atomic
op.

Fixes: 61536be ("ovl: support [S|G]ETFLAGS and FS[S|G]ETXATTR ioctls for directories")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10
Reported-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
Tested-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi committed Jan 28, 2021
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23 changes: 7 additions & 16 deletions fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
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Expand Up @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ struct file *ovl_dir_real_file(const struct file *file, bool want_upper)

struct ovl_dir_file *od = file->private_data;
struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
struct file *realfile = od->realfile;
struct file *old, *realfile = od->realfile;

if (!OVL_TYPE_UPPER(ovl_path_type(dentry)))
return want_upper ? NULL : realfile;
Expand All @@ -874,29 +874,20 @@ struct file *ovl_dir_real_file(const struct file *file, bool want_upper)
* Need to check if we started out being a lower dir, but got copied up
*/
if (!od->is_upper) {
struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);

realfile = READ_ONCE(od->upperfile);
if (!realfile) {
struct path upperpath;

ovl_path_upper(dentry, &upperpath);
realfile = ovl_dir_open_realfile(file, &upperpath);
if (IS_ERR(realfile))
return realfile;

inode_lock(inode);
if (!od->upperfile) {
if (IS_ERR(realfile)) {
inode_unlock(inode);
return realfile;
}
smp_store_release(&od->upperfile, realfile);
} else {
/* somebody has beaten us to it */
if (!IS_ERR(realfile))
fput(realfile);
realfile = od->upperfile;
old = cmpxchg_release(&od->upperfile, NULL, realfile);
if (old) {
fput(realfile);
realfile = old;
}
inode_unlock(inode);
}
}

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