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NeilBrown f16857e62b NFS: unlink/rmdir shouldn't call d_delete() twice on ENOENT
nfs_unlink() calls d_delete() twice if it receives ENOENT from the
server - once in nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() from nfs_safe_remove and
once in nfs_dentry_remove_handle_error().

nfs_rmddir() also calls it twice - the nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() call
is direct and inside a region locked with ->rmdir_sem

It is safe to call d_delete() twice if the refcount > 1 as the dentry is
simply unhashed.
If the refcount is 1, the first call sets d_inode to NULL and the second
call crashes.

This patch guards the d_delete() call from nfs_dentry_handle_enoent()
leaving the one under ->remdir_sem in case that is important.

In mainline it would be safe to remove the d_delete() call.  However in
older kernels to which this might be backported, that would change the
behaviour of nfs_unlink().  nfs_unlink() used to unhash the dentry which
resulted in nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() not calling d_delete().  So in
older kernels we need the d_delete() in nfs_dentry_remove_handle_error()
when called from nfs_unlink() but not when called from nfs_rmdir().

To make the code work correctly for old and new kernels, and from both
nfs_unlink() and nfs_rmdir(), we protect the d_delete() call with
simple_positive().  This ensures it is never called in a circumstance
where it could crash.

Fixes: 3c59366c20 ("NFS: don't unhash dentry during unlink/rename")
Fixes: 9019fb391d ("NFS: Label the dentry with a verifier in nfs_rmdir() and nfs_unlink()")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
2022-08-19 20:31:36 -04:00
arch - Prepare for and clear .brk early in order to address XenPV guests 2022-07-10 08:43:52 -07:00
block block: remove WARN_ON() from bd_link_disk_holder 2022-06-23 07:48:05 -06:00
certs Certs changes 2022-06-21 12:13:53 -05:00
crypto crypto: s390 - do not depend on CRYPTO_HW for SIMD implementations 2022-07-06 20:04:06 -07:00
Documentation dmaengine fixes for v5.19 2022-07-10 11:23:01 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'hot-fixes' (fixes for rc6) 2022-07-10 14:26:49 -07:00
fs NFS: unlink/rmdir shouldn't call d_delete() twice on ENOENT 2022-08-19 20:31:36 -04:00
include NFS: Cleanup to remove unused flag NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES 2022-08-13 13:02:14 -04:00
init gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally for now 2022-06-09 10:11:12 -07:00
ipc These changes update the ipc sysctls so that they are fundamentally 2022-06-03 15:54:57 -07:00
kernel ptrace: fix clearing of JOBCTL_TRACED in ptrace_unfreeze_traced() 2022-07-09 11:06:19 -07:00
lib ida: don't use BUG_ON() for debugging 2022-07-10 13:55:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Minor things, mainly - mailmap updates, MAINTAINERS updates, etc. 2022-06-26 14:00:55 -07:00
net SUNRPC: Don't reuse bvec on retransmission of the request 2022-07-27 16:26:17 -04:00
samples fprobe, samples: Add module parameter descriptions 2022-06-24 15:23:04 -07:00
scripts kbuild: remove unused cmd_none in scripts/Makefile.modinst 2022-07-10 21:25:15 +09:00
security selinux: free contexts previously transferred in selinux_add_opt() 2022-06-15 21:20:45 -04:00
sound ALSA: cs46xx: Fix missing snd_card_free() call at probe error 2022-07-05 17:24:05 +02:00
tools - Prepare for and clear .brk early in order to address XenPV guests 2022-07-10 08:43:52 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: disable preemption around the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_{un|}blocking 2022-06-09 10:52:20 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap cxl fixes for 5.19-rc6 2022-07-08 12:55:25 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS cxl fixes for 5.19-rc6 2022-07-08 12:55:25 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.19-rc6 2022-07-10 14:40:51 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.