RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:47:07 +0000 (15:47 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 6 May 2015 19:56:27 +0000 (21:56 +0200)
commit3b388f33a1fc643f5e9dc496c741eafdf6ebef49
tree3d1eaf04ea0951bfce4dbfcd5ca8f5465ffc014e
parent10e30152633a23d3da2326ff23f4b0b5fc1e94ce
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something

commit 3cab989afd8d8d1bc3d99fef0e7ed87c31e7b647 upstream.

Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find
a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount.
That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory
(which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_
manage to bind a symlink on top of something.  And in such cases we end up
with excessive mntput().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/namei.c