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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2019-03-28 17:38:29 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2019-05-08 13:25:53 +0200
commitacf3062a7e1ccf67c6f7e7c28671a6708fde63b0 (patch)
treef4dda7c6c24f36eac36b9cb56f5e35f8bdfbfbf6 /fs/overlayfs/dir.c
parent98487de318a6f33312471ae1e2afa16fbf8361fe (diff)
ovl: relax WARN_ON() for overlapping layers use case
This nasty little syzbot repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=12c7a94f400000 Creates overlay mounts where the same directory is both in upper and lower layers. Simplified example: mkdir foo work mount -t overlay none foo -o"lowerdir=.,upperdir=foo,workdir=work" The repro runs several threads in parallel that attempt to chdir into foo and attempt to symlink/rename/exec/mkdir the file bar. The repro hits a WARN_ON() I placed in ovl_instantiate(), which suggests that an overlay inode already exists in cache and is hashed by the pointer of the real upper dentry that ovl_create_real() has just created. At the point of the WARN_ON(), for overlay dir inode lock is held and upper dir inode lock, so at first, I did not see how this was possible. On a closer look, I see that after ovl_create_real(), because of the overlapping upper and lower layers, a lookup by another thread can find the file foo/bar that was just created in upper layer, at overlay path foo/foo/bar and hash the an overlay inode with the new real dentry as lower dentry. This is possible because the overlay directory foo/foo is not locked and the upper dentry foo/bar is in dcache, so ovl_lookup() can find it without taking upper dir inode shared lock. Overlapping layers is considered a wrong setup which would result in unexpected behavior, but it shouldn't crash the kernel and it shouldn't trigger WARN_ON() either, so relax this WARN_ON() and leave a pr_warn() instead to cover all cases of failure to get an overlay inode. The error returned from failure to insert new inode to cache with inode_insert5() was changed to -EEXIST, to distinguish from the error -ENOMEM returned on failure to get/allocate inode with iget5_locked(). Reported-by: syzbot+9c69c282adc4edd2b540@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 01b39dcc9568 ("ovl: use inode_insert5() to hash a newly...") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/dir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 82c129bfe58d..93872bb50230 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static int ovl_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
* hashed directory inode aliases.
*/
inode = ovl_get_inode(dentry->d_sb, &oip);
- if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(inode)))
+ if (IS_ERR(inode))
return PTR_ERR(inode);
} else {
WARN_ON(ovl_inode_real(inode) != d_inode(newdentry));